Crossword-Solution: MEIOSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Meiosis | n. | Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MEIOSIS (5)
Under unfavourable conditions reduction or meiosis occurs, and two kinds of eggs larger and smaller are formed, both with _N_ chromosomes.
The behaviour of the chromosomes in meiosis or reduction division both in the pollen mother-cells and in the megaspore mother-cells which give rise to the so-called embryo-sac are fully described by Gates.
Even the psychiatrists--whom she had, with a careful sense of meiosis, appointed Physicians to the Royal House--had to wear the stuff.
Orguly Bolp's large painting, entitled "Embrocation," is an interesting experiment in the handling of aplanatic surfaces, in which the toxic determinants are harmonized by a sort of plastic _meiosis_ with syncopated rhythms.
Haploid (_n_) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in diakinesis, metaphase I, and metaphase II of meiosis.
Quotes with MEIOSIS (1)
The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. It must have an impartial exit channel into the future, for all the genes inside it. This is true of an individual wolf. The channel is the thin stream of sperms, or eggs, which it manufactures by meiosis. It is not true of the pack of wolves. Genes have something to gain from selfishly promoting the welfare of their own individual bodies, at the expense of other genes in the wo…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).