The process of gamete formation involves a specialized form of cell division called meiosis, which is tightly regulated by molecular processes within the cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

It’s possible the last time I heard the word meiosis was in my Anatomy and Physiology class in college.    From Wordnik.com.  [JAD Office Pool Winners « UDreamOfJanie] Reference

This reduction is accomplished through a process called meiosis, where one chromosome in a diploid pair is sent to each daughter gamete.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

Linnaeus, Carolus lipids mammals meiosis memory cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [21. Life Sciences] Reference

I'll use the cell-division process of meiosis as an example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

There are only two forms of reproduction, mitosis and meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Causality] Reference

Davison, J.A. (1984), Semi-meiosis as an Evolutionary Mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Is it any wonder we thought of mitosis and meiosis and all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

In maize terminalization occurs a the diplotene stage of meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

Like if I type “meiosiz” it auto-corrects it to “meiosis”!.    From Wordnik.com.  [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference

Moreover they need genes from the Y chromosome to go through meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Sperm cells created from female embryo."] Reference

Each of these, because of the variety produced by meiosis, may be unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin's Giving Thanks for Cell Division] Reference

The big innovations of the eukaryotes were the diploid genome and meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water again ... - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In F1 meiosis, two little acrocentrics line up with with a big metacentic.    From Wordnik.com.  [(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Irregular meiosis associated with pollen sterility in Vetiveria zizanioides (Linn.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

As a male, I have had a group of cells, in my testes, where meiosis is happening all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin's Giving Thanks for Cell Division] Reference

In meiosis in hybrids this will produce defective gametes with loss of fragments of chromosomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

In freshwater species, this is followed by the formation of a cyst in which meiosis takes place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phytoplankton] Reference

This does not prevent homologic alignement in meiosis and so fertility of hybrides is unhindered.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Students have a hard time connecting these static stages with the genetic consequences of meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

I think that most students find genetics difficult primarily because they don't understand meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

S: "In meiosis in hybrids this will produce defective gametes with loss of fragments of chromosomes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I found this graphic that sort of explains it visually, for those already familiar with normal meiosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parenthood: Males need not apply.] Reference

Mitosis is the reproduction of eukaryotic cells and meiosis is the division of chromosomes within a cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [OSMOSIS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Yet somehow, according to evolutionists, a batch of lucky mutations allowed meiosis to blossom on the tree of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Causality] Reference

• Genetics the separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Restaurant Doesn't Serve Chinese Tourists and Taiwanese Traitors] Reference

The crossing over that occurs during meiosis can result in the production of new alleles or new combinations of alleles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic variation] Reference

In this context our current understanding of molecular biology and meiosis is presented as explaining what Mendel found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preparing for a meeting with our usual textbook rep] Reference

Approximately seven days after completion of meiosis this very enlarged cell prepares for the first post-meiotic mitosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

This is true because it is a universal feature of meiosis that the sister (identical) strands remain together in meiosis I.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And meiosis is again treated largely as patterns to be recognized, with no emphasis on using it to predict gamete genotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Results of the textbook meeting] Reference

In my defense, my biology courses were always super concerned with photosynthesis, cell respiration, meiosis and mitosis, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's The Little Things] Reference

Separately we'll teach how DNA sequences are inherited meiosis, gamete fusion, chromosome reassortment and crossing over, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preparing for a meeting with our usual textbook rep] Reference

The procedure involves activating her eggs artificially and then arresting meiosis immediately after the first meiotic division.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Even the psychiatrists -- whom she had, with a careful sense of meiosis, appointed Physicians to the Royal House -- had to wear the stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference