mitosis.

A process of nuclear division in which duplicated chromosomes are separated into corresponding sets, typically supporting the formation of daughter cells.

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• mitotic division
• stages of mitosis

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The imaging sequence captured the chromosomes separating during mitosis.

They checked whether the treatment disrupted mitosis before attributing the change to cell death.

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.