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Meanings of reduction division in English

Portuguese

meiose

Catalan

meiosi

Spanish

meiosis

(Genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

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Usage of reduction division in English

The first stage in the division of the nucleus in the gonotokonts has therefore been termed the reduction division. 
 Darwin and Modern Science 

This, however, appeared later as a product of the further evolution of the zygote, and the reduction division was correspondingly postponed. 
 Darwin and Modern Science 

Reduction division and homotypic nuclear division are included together under the term allotypic nuclear division and are distinguished from the ordinary or typical nuclear division. 
 Darwin and Modern Science 

Translations for reduction division