Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the series of active changes which take place in the nucleus of a living cell in the process of division. Also written
caryocinesis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to
karyostenosis . The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute thedaughter nuclei . Called alsomitosis . See Cell development, undercell . - noun The changes that occur in the nucleus of a cell, especially movements of the chromosomes, in the process of cell division.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The process of change that takes place during the
division of acell nucleus atmitosis ormeiosis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun organic process consisting of the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis
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Examples
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"karyokinesis," and is found throughout the higher animals as well as plants.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Indirect division or karyokinesis (karyomitosis) has been observed in all the tissues—generative cells, epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscular tissue, and nerve tissue.
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Association in 1912, argued that all the main characteristics of living matter, such as assimilation and disassimilation, growth and reproduction, spontaneous and amoeboid movement, osmotic pressure, karyokinesis, etc., were equally apparent in the non-living; therefore he concluded that life is only one of the many chemical reactions, and that it is not improbable that it will yet be produced by chemical synthesis in the laboratory.
The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879
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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.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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As a matter of fact, in many cases of tissue-formation karyokinesis has not hitherto been detected.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Here, then (Fig. 29), we see the complex processes of karyokinesis in the first two stages of egg-cell division.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Fertilization having been thus effected by fusion of the male and female pronuclei into a single (or new) nucleus, this latter body proceeds to exhibit complicated processes of karyokinesis, which, as before shown, are preliminary to nuclear division in the case of egg-cells.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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As in the case of sexual propagation, so in that of karyokinesis, processes which are common to all the Metazoa are not wholly without their foreshadowings in the
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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It is needless to say that I refer to the phenomena of karyokinesis.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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