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Meiosis

"Meiosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A type of CELL NUCLEUS division, occurring during maturation of the GERM CELLS. Two successive cell nucleus divisions following a single chromosome duplication (S PHASE) result in daughter cells with half the number of CHROMOSOMES as the parent cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Meiosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Meiosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006
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