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
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
In the preparation one may see the distance between the two poles slowly increase, the poles gradually separating from one another just as do the centrosomes of an ovum during karyokinesis.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
Many of these so-called explanations are mechanical, while others invoke the aid of magnetism or electricity to account for the resemblance of the figures of karyokinesis to the magnetic or electric phantom or spectre.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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