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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MEIOSIS

Via New Latin from Greek: a lessening, from meioun to diminish, from meiōn less.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MEIOSIS

meiosis  [maɪˈəʊsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEIOSIS

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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meiosis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEIOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Meiosis

Meiosis i/maɪˈoʊsɨs/ is a special type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. The number of sets of chromosomes in the cell undergoing meiosis is reduced to half the original number, typically from two sets to one set. The cells produced by meiosis are either gametes or otherwise usually spores from which gametes are ultimately produced. In many organisms, including all animals and land plants, gametes are called sperm in males and egg cells or ova in females. Since meiosis has halved the number of sets of chromosomes, when two gametes fuse during fertilisation, the number of sets of chromosomes in the resulting zygote is restored to the original number. Meiotic division occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, dividing the cells once at each stage. Before meiosis begins, during S phase of the cell cycle, the DNA of each chromosome is replicated, so that each chromosome has two sister chromatids; a diploid organism now has a tetraploid DNA amount in the cell.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEIOSIS


anaerobiosis
ˌænɛərəʊbaɪˈəʊsɪs
antibiosis
ˌæntɪbaɪˈəʊsɪs
apotheosis
əˌpɒθɪˈəʊsɪs
babesiosis
bəˌbiːzɪˈəʊsɪs
bacteriosis
bækˌtɪərɪˈəʊsɪs
berylliosis
bəˌrɪlɪˈəʊsɪs
coccidiosis
kɒkˌsɪdɪˈəʊsɪs
endometriosis
ˌɛndəʊˌmiːtrɪˈəʊsɪs
endosymbiosis
ˌɛndəʊˌsɪmbɪˈəʊsɪs
gliosis
ɡlaɪˈəʊsɪs
leishmaniosis
liːʃˌmeɪnɪˈəʊsɪs
listeriosis
lɪˌstɪərɪˈəʊsɪs
miosis
maɪˈəʊsɪs
mononucleosis
ˌmɒnəʊˌnjuːklɪˈəʊsɪs
myosis
maɪˈəʊsɪs
necrobiosis
ˌnɛkrəʊbaɪˈəʊsɪs
pneumoconiosis
ˌnjuːməʊˌkəʊnɪˈəʊsɪs
scoliosis
ˌskɒlɪˈəʊsɪs
semiosis
ˌsɛmɪˈəʊsɪs
symbiosis
ˌsɪmbɪˈəʊsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEIOSIS

meibomian gland
Meiji
meikle
Meilhac
meinie
meiny
meiocyte
meiofauna
meiofaunal
meionite
meioses
meiospore
meiotic
meiotically
Meir
meishi
Meissen
Meissner effect
Meistersinger
meith

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEIOSIS

abiosis
aerobiosis
ameiosis
anabiosis
ateleiosis
bilharziosis
coniosis
cryptobiosis
diagnosis
enantiosis
epibiosis
gnotobiosis
heliosis
parabiosis
pneumokoniosis
pneumonoconiosis
podoconiosis
synoeciosis
trophobiosis
vibriosis
yersiniosis

Synonyms and antonyms of meiosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meiosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEIOSIS

Find out the translation of meiosis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meiosis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meiosis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

减数分裂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

meiosis
570 millions of speakers

English

meiosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अर्धसूत्रीविभाजन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانقسام الاختزالي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мейоза
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meiose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভাজনে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méiose
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meiosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meiose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

減数分裂
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감수 분열
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meiosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giảm phân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒடுக்கற்பிரிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धसूचना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

az gösterme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meiosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mejozy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мейозу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

meioză
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μειωτικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meiose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meios
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meiose
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meiosis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEIOSIS»

The term «meiosis» is regularly used and occupies the 59.475 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEIOSIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about meiosis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEIOSIS»

Discover the use of meiosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meiosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Meiosis
Superbly illustrated textbook on meiosis, a key cellular and developmental pathway in the life of an organism.
Bernard John, 2005
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Meiosis
This volume provides the reader with a series of authoritative review articles summarizing some of the most recent advances in the field of meiosis research.
Ricardo Benavente, Jean-Nicolas Volff, 2009
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All About Mitosis and Meiosis
Many organisms are multicellular, which means they have many cells-even trillions! The cells work together to help the organism do things such as create energy, reproduce, and get rid of waste.
Elizabeth Cregan, 2007
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Meiosis
Introduction to Meiosis; Evolution; Recombination; Chromosomes; Chemistry of Meiosis.
Peter B. Moens, 1987
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Mitosis and Meiosis: Mitosis and Meiosis
With chapters covering micromanipulation of chromosomes and making, expressing, and imaging GFP-fusion proteins, this volume contains state-of-the-art "how to" secrets that allow researchers to obtain novel information on the biology of ...
‎1998
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Meiosis and Gametogenesis
There has recently been a flurry of research activity in this area and this volume summarizes the advances coming from this work. All authors are recognized and respected research scientists at the forefront of research in meiosis.
‎1997
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Grauzone and Completion of Meiosis During Drosophila Oogenesis
Grauzone and Completion of Meiosis During Drosophila Oogenesis describes the work behind a major, award winning discovery: the establishment of a new pathway that specifically regulates the female meiosis, a process essential for sexual ...
Bin Chen, 2001
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Meiosis: Volume 2, Cytological Methods
The methods in this volume are grouped for convenience by general types of organisms: fungi, plants and small animals (mostly invertebrates), and mammals.
Scott Keeney, 2009
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AP Biology, 2nd Ed. (Book Only)
Explain how these alleles are distributed to gametes by the process of meiosis. c. Explain how the behavior of these two pairs of chromosomes during meiosis provides the physical basis for two of Mendel's laws of heredity. a. Mitotic cell ...
Deborah T. Goldberg, M.S.
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Recombination and Meiosis: Crossing-Over and Disjunction
siently after meiosis I and rises again at the onset of meiosis II. Furuno et al. ( 1994) have shown that the rapid reactivation of Cdk1 suppresses S-phase after meiosis I and prevents entry into interphase, and that the Mos/MAPK pathway is ...
Richard Egel, Dirk-Henner Lankenau, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEIOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meiosis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parent–progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
3a). b, c, Variation in the mutation rates as a function of heterozygosity proportion during meiosis. Detailed calculation of mutation rates of F3 right arrow F4, F2 ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage disequilibrium in …
... distorted by the influence of selection, a molecular mechanism limiting the site of recombination at meiosis, and/or population demographics. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Scientists found out exactly why older women are less likely to have …
Yogo Sakakibara of RIKEN and colleagues watched hundreds of mouse eggs mature through a particular kind of cell division called meiosis, ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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Neuron Neurosis
Another, called “Unremember Everything You Learned at School,” lists “Sentence/diagramming” and “Mitosis or Meiosis?” There are plays that ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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This Week in Nature
With the approach, they found a number of genes with essential roles in meiosis, including ones that regulate chromosome segregation. «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»
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IRB Barcelona scientists provide molecular details about Seckel …
"We know that CEP63 depletion leads to problems during meiosis, a specialized type of cell division that is required for male germ cells to ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
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Microspore culture reveals complex meiotic behaviour in a …
The normality of meiosis in the near-allohexaploid hybrid was first assessed by measuring the transmission frequencies of marker alleles to the ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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Public Release: 7-Jul-2015 A key role for CEP63 in brain …
"We know that CEP63 depletion leads to problems during meiosis, a specialized type of cell division that is required for male germ cells to ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
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'Virgin Births' Won't Save The Smalltooth Sawfish From Extinction
But the process of turning ovarian stem cells into eggs, a form of cell division called meiosis, splits up chromosomes so that the egg holds only ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
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Why human egg cells don't age well
Immature egg cells begin this way, but are transformed through a process called meiosis into mature egg cells that only have one copy of each ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»

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