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The coherence of the daughter-cells into which the fertilised egg-cell divides is a reminiscence, as it were, of the primeval coherence of daughter-units that made the first body possible.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur

The type in all these cases is this: A mother-cell produces by cell-division four daughter-cells.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

Of the two daughter-cells produced from the zygote, one continued dividing at a very slow rate, and without showing any specialization.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

In Mikrogromia the cell undergoes fission within the test, and on its completion the daughter-cells may emerge as biflagellate zoospores.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

Then the protoplasm is separated between the two new nuclei, and the whole cell splits into two daughter-cells, the protoplasm gathering about each of the nuclei.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August