answersLogoWhite

0

What is another word for meiosis?

Updated: 10/26/2022
User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

Best Answer

reduction division. this is because the daughter cells end up with half the genetic material of their parent.

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What is another word for meiosis?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Another word that has the same meaning as the word mitosis and refers to division of the nucleus is?

Amitosis, meiosis


What is a sentence using the word meiosis?

Only sex cells go through meiosis.


What is Another name for cell divisions?

Meiosis


3 Meiosis is from a Greek word meaning to diminish or lessen Why is this an appropriate term?

The process of meiosis results in gametes (sperm and eggs) which contain one half of the chromosomes (genetic material) of the parent cell. So it results in a reduction of the number of chromosomes. Another term for meiosis is "reduction division".


What is the greek word that meiosis come from that means to make?

meiosis : μείωσις [μείωση] and it doesn mean to make it means to reduce.


What is another name for Meiosis you?

that would be reduction division, i think :}


What happens in meiosis in anophase 1?

Another way to increase genetic diversity is the process referred to as anaphase one. The is the third stage of meiosis, which is where chromosomes are loosened.


Reduction division is the same as what form of cell division?

Reduction division is another term for meiosis- 1 (ONE).


What is the word where 2 cells divide?

Fission. There are two types: mitosis and meiosis.


What word can be made with a o i a m e s m?

MEIOSIS is the longest word that can be made from those letters.


What are the two distinct stages of meiosis?

Meiosis I and meiosis II


What Meiosis occurs in .?

meiosis occurs in the overies and the testies.....there is 2 stage of meiosis...meiosis 1 and meiosis