How to Use mitosis in a Sentence

mitosis

noun
  • So, why does this complex form only when mitosis takes longer than usual?
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Cell mitosis takes place over three to five days, as your zygote makes its way through your fallopian tube.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Clearly, mitosis already has all the makings of a good drama.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
  • Why was the science teacher hesitant to give a lecture on mitosis?
    — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 20 May 2022
  • Spending a lot of time in mitosis can mean that the chromosomes have picked up damage, which may cause problems in the future.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In another, a flower girl splits in two, like a cell undergoing mitosis.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The floating ball vibrated a little each time one of its cells completed mitosis, splitting from one cell into two daughter cells.
    — Amos Zeeberg (discover Web Editor), Discover Magazine, 15 July 2010
  • But that messiness poses a problem during mitosis, when the cell has to make a copy of its genetic material and divide in two.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
  • When a cell replicates, a process called mitosis, the genetic material of the cell needs to be duplicated.
    — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2014
  • Careful timing experiments showed that the longer cells spent trying to undergo mitosis, the more likely the daughter cells would be to stop dividing.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
  • My sons’ high-school biology classes spent more time designing a model recycling center than teaching mitosis and meiosis.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
  • These critters have a gestation time measured in minutes — a real challenge for mitosis but an advantage in avoiding tiresome delays in the storyline.
    — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
  • From live-action films of mitosis to the workings of individual organelles, the future of cellular imaging is a wriggling mass of 3-D footage.
    — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2011
  • For a daily and microscopic process, mitosis is an astonishingly beautiful dance.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
  • Treating a cannabis plant with a natural chemical disrupts mitosis, leading to the creation of extra chromosomes without cell division.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In another form of parthenogenesis, apomixis, reproductive cells replicate via mitosis, a process in which the cell duplicates to create two diploid cells—a kind of genetic copy-and-paste.
    — Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Microtubules are a key element of eukaryotic cells that are critical for mitosis, cell motility, transport within cells, and maintaining cell shape.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Winner, winner = porchetta dinner as last year’s Critic’s Choice winner has undergone culinary mitosis — and a bit of evolution.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This sort of movement-mitosis appears to be an essential element in the natural physiology of social justice campaigns.
    — Elaine Weiss, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
  • So far, all of the cells, from stem cells to spermatozoa, divided by mitosis, a kind of cell division that creates two new cells, both identical to the original, with a 23 pairs of chromosomes.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2016
  • The researchers focused on an important part of cell division, or mitosis, during which two daughter cells created through cell division are placed in the proper orientation within the tissue.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2016
  • Ear Taxi’s sophomore edition comprised dozens of world premieres, some 600 artists, and more than a hundred performances — much of which was streamed for live and post-concert viewing, no mitosis necessary.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The media business always goes through some splitting of cells — meiosis and mitosis — but every industry leader concedes that consolidation is especially needed today.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Ed was, after all, already creating the Cells series, looking at mitosis and immune response through a visual vocabulary shaped by Japanese woodblock design.
    — Emilie Hardman, JSTOR Daily, 6 May 2026
  • In apomixis, reproductive cells replicate using mitosis, forming genetically identical offspring.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021

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