Similarly, amitotic divisions of macronuclei in ciliates may result in unequal distributions of DNA to daughter nuclei These deviations are sensed in each daughter cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

Direct cell division. amitotic, adj.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference