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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exhibiting amitosis; relating to amitosis.

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  • adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to amitosis

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  • adjective pertaining to a simple method of cell division

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Examples

  • This multiplication, in most cases, takes the form of a simple cleavage, sometimes direct, sometimes indirect; the simple direct (or "amitotic") division is less common, and is found, for instance, in the blood cells (Figure 1.10).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Similarly, amitotic divisions of macronuclei in ciliates may result in unequal distributions of DNA to daughter nuclei These deviations are sensed in each daughter cell.

    Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983

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    August 20, 2008