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
We may also produce diffusion figures of abnormal karyokinesis.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
The fertilised nucleus, thus consisting of chromosomes from male and female, then divides by a complicated process known as karyokinesis, in which each chromosome splits longitudinally, one half passing to each daughter-nucleus.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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 Leduc, Stéphane
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