Sentences with phrase «time during meiosis»
The results of the research team revealed the ovules keep track of time during meiosis using a process similar to a molecular «alarm clock.»
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This parceling process, called meiosis, occurs twice in the egg cell — once during a woman's fetal development and a second time as the egg is released from the ovary.
Prior studies by Kerr el al, showed that PP2ACdc55 played an essential role in controlling the timing of metaphase to anaphase during meiosis, in other words preventing cells from prematurely exiting meiosis.
Such costs include: (1) metabolic energy that must be devoted to mating and meiosis; (2) energy and time expended locating a mating partner; (3) that only 50 % of parental genes are transmitted to any given progeny or that two individuals are required to produce one progeny (resulting in the so - called 2-fold cost of sex); and (4) the fact that two genomes that have run the gauntlet of adaptive selection are shuffled during the process, breaking apart well - adapted genomic configurations [57].