noun
Etymology
Origin of reduction division
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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“On Skid Row, it’s a day-to-day crisis. It’s visible,” said Shoshanna Scholar, director of the harm reduction division at the Los Angeles County Health Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023
For this reason, meiosis I is referred to as a reduction division.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
This is certainly a reduction division, for the tetrads are always somewhat elongated and come into the spindle with their longer axes parallel with the axis of the spindle.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Stevens, Nettie Maria
Miss Fraser in Humaria rutilans finds two reductions: a normal synaptic reduction in the first nuclear division of the ascus, and a peculiar reduction division termed brachymeiosis in the third ascus division.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The ovum then with one X chromosome or one X and one Y changes its sex at the next reduction division and becomes male.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
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