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microsporocyte
homeotypic
probasidium
asynapsis
homologous recombination
asexual reproduction
sporophyte
microsporogenesis
leptotene
benomyl
understatement
mitotic spindle
ameiotic
spermatid
zygonema
prophase
made
meiospore
despiralization
crossover
automixis
segregation
reproductive division
leptonema
apomixis
apomeiosis
something
metaphase
chiasma
equation division
pretty
sporogenesis
haploid
figure of speech
meioses
coconversion
tetrasome
pseudoautosomal
synaptonemal
aneuspory
heterotypic
daughter cell
pachytene
ameiosis
postmeiotically
gametogenesis
meiotically
less
haploblock
achiasmatic
gametes
ascus
syzygy
meiocyte
diplotene
polar body
nondisjunction
important
megaspore mother cell
diplonema
actually
acrosyndesis
bivalent
sporocyte
haplosis
multivalent
gametocyte
subsexual
premeiotic
mitosis
meiome
smaller
meiotic
zygotene
diplomyxis
seem
telophase
anaphase
meiosporangium
gamete
karyokinesis
premeiotically
diploid
reduction division
synapsis
metabasidium
disjunction
postmeiotic
terminalize
pachynema
Definitions:
Noun
meiosis
miosis
reduction division
Definition: (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)
litotes
meiosis
Definition: understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
Definition: A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.