karyokinesis
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the series of active changes that take place in the nucleus of a living cell in the process of division.
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The first portion of the mitotic phase is called karyokinesis, or nuclear division.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Prokaryotic cells, on the other hand, do not undergo karyokinesis and therefore have no need for a mitotic spindle.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In the course of division two bodies appear in the cytoplasm, and behave as centrosomes during the karyokinesis; they gradually become threadlike and coil round each daughter nucleus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
In 1904 I presented to the Grenoble Congress, and in 1906 to the Lyons Congress, a series of photographs and preparations of experimental karyokinesis.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
This observation applies equally to the equatorial plane in natural karyokinesis, whose existence is thus readily explained.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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