ameiosis

(thing) by BioTech Wed Nov 10 2004 at 2:05:01

A form of nuclear division which does not reduce the number of chromosomes because both of the nuclear divisions normally part of the process of meiosis have failed to occur.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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