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What does cytokinesis mean?

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  1. (biology) The process in which the cytoplasm of a cell divides following the division of the nucleus.
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This can happen either occasionally during cell wounding or regularly during cytokinesis and meiosis.
The ultimate conclusion of one cell cycle is cytokinesis resulting in two identical daughter cells.
Analysis of the double-mutant phenotype indicated that at the nonpermissive temperature, cells failed to undergo cytokinesis efficiently.
Note that macronuclear karyokinesis and cytokinesis has initiated in rad 51 nulls despite the failure to complete micronuclear mitosis.
Actin filaments and associated proteins are responsible for cellular movement, cytokinesis, and phagocytosis.
The phialides produce chains of uninucleate conidia after repeated mitotic division and cytokinesis.

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