Crossword-Solution: AMITOSIS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The other method, "amitosis," or direct division, is unaccompanied by any visible mechanism and is of relatively exceptional occurrence.

The futility of these attempted mechanical explanations of mitosis is sufficiently clearly shown, not only by the contradictory nature of the explanations themselves, but by the fact that, in amitosis, nuclear and cytoplasmic division occur without any fibrillar mechanism whatever.

Moreover, we have no reason for supposing that the division of the chromatin in amitosis is not as meristic, and its subsequent distribution as equal, as is so visibly the case in mitosis.[32] It is necessary, therefore, to seek for some other explanation of the elaborate mechanism of mitosis than that which assumes it necessary for the equal distribution of the divided chromatin granules.

This explanation is in harmony with the occurrence of typical mitosis in active tissue cells on the one hand, and of amitosis in the relatively quiescent primary germ cells on the other.

Both processes, in which the nucleus divides by amitosis, can only be distinguished by the fact that the daughter individuals are similar in binary fission but dissimilar in gemmation, whether they make their appearance singly or in greater numbers.