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
Figures 184 a and 185 show that the unequal components of the unsymmetrical pair, as well as the equal components of the symmetrical pairs, are separated in metakinesis, making this clearly a reduction division.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Nettie Maria Stevens
The chromosomes before the reduction division are arranged in pairs, each pair consisting, it is believed, of one paternal and one maternal chromosome.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
The behaviour of the chromosomes in meiosis or reduction division both in the pollen mother-cells and in the megaspore mother-cells which give rise to the so-called embryo-sac are fully described by Gates.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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