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What does meiosis mean?

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  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is; understatement.
  2. (cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
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This is evidence that the genes are evolving in a concerted manner, as might be predicted for genes that mispair very frequently in meiosis.
My personal hope is that students will have some intuitive understanding of meiosis as the physical basis of genetics.
Like the gregarines, however, the life cycle is primarily haploid, with diploidy only occurring before meiosis.
The three other products of female meiosis, the polar bodies, arrest in a metaphase state and associate with radiating arrays of microtubules.
Each basidiospore contains a recombinant haploid nucleus, the product of meiosis.
Different from bivalent polyploids, multivalent polyploids pair their chromosomes among more than two homologous copies at meiosis.

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