Sentences with phrase «during ordinary cell»

Like others before him, Schrödinger was struck by the fact that chromosomes are accurately duplicated during ordinary cell division (mitosis, the way in which an organism grows) and during the creation of the sex cells (meiosis).

Not exact matches

Previously, our main clue that X and Y had a common ancestry was that they swap a few small sections during one kind of cell division, just as pairs of ordinary chromosomes swap much larger chunks.

Such wounds don't occur during an ordinary infection, in which the parasite induces the liver cell to encapsulate it.