Sentences with phrase «kind of cell division»

In contrast to the cells in the rest of the body, sex cells hold half the number of chromosomes (they are haploid) as a result of this special kind of cell division.

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.

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During that time, 42 of these stem cells underwent a spurt of division, churning out two kinds of cells: intermediate cells that would go on to produce nerve cells as well as mature nerve cells themselves.

The arrays of microtubules facilitating plant cell division lack these kinds of central hubs.

During the key step in sperm formation — a division that results in two cells, each with half the original number of chromosomes — the X and Y chromosomes peeled off from the chain one by one and headed into separate cells, all segregating faithfully with their own kind.

Precursor cells can turn into other kinds of neurons, and could accumulate dangerous mutations during their many divisions, says Loring.

This makes a certain kind of sense, since the stem cells in the paternal germ line undergo continuous cell division throughout a man's life, whereas a woman is born with all of the eggs she'll ever have.

So the good news is that mammalian hearts can undergo a kind of metabolic «downsizing» that is a prelude to cell division.

In their 2015 study, Tomasetti and Vogelstein compared cancer incidence in the United States to the total number of cell divisions to different kinds of tissues in the body.