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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Prokaryotic cells, on the other hand, do not undergo karyokinesis and therefore have no need for a mitotic spindle.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The first portion of the mitotic phase is called karyokinesis, or nuclear division.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Lastly, with respect to karyokinesis, although it is true that the microscope has in comparatively recent years displayed this apparently important distinction between unicellular and multicellular organisms, two considerations have here to be supplied.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
If in the cytoplasm of a cell there are two points of molecular concentration greater than that of the general mass, the nucleus must necessarily divide with all the phenomena which accompany karyokinesis.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
The experiment shows that diffusion is quite sufficient to produce organic karyokinesis, and that the only physical force required is that of osmotic pressure.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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