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Meiosis
Why should a biologist care about rheology? Actually, biologists used to care a lot more about rheology than they have lately. A prominent physiology text from the 1950s (An outline of general physiology by L. Heilbrunn) stated that “In any attempt to interpret the machinery of a living cell, it is essential to know something about the mechanical properties of the protoplasm in the cell that is...
متن کاملMeiosis.
Sexual reproduction requires the production of haploid gametes (sperm and egg) with only one copy of each chromosome; fertilization then restores the diploid chromosome content in the next generation. This reduction in genetic content is accomplished during a specialized cell division called meiosis, in which two rounds of chromosome segregation follow a single round of DNA replication. In prep...
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In meiosis in male fruitflies, chromosome pairing events do not facilitate genetic exchange, but rather create bivalents that can be sequestered to discrete pockets of the prophase nucleus. This assignment of homologs to a common pocket likely facilitates the orientation of homologous centromeres to opposite poles.
متن کاملWhence Meiosis?
Sexual reproduction predominates among eukaryotic organisms on our planet. While debate continues over why this should be so, burgeoning genomic and functional information now allows us to begin to think reasonably about some of the events that may have occurred to make sex possible in the first place.
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F ertilization triggers an upheaval in the egg, including a switch from meiosis to mitosis as the method of cell division. Courtois et al. show that this transition is gradual and isn’t complete until after the embryo’s 8th division (1). Meiosis and mitosis differ in several ways. Unlike the bipolar mitotic spindle that is anchored by a centrosome at either end, the meiotic spindle starts out w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.013