Meanings
- uncountablebiologyA form of mitosis characterized by an axial, central, symmetric, and bipolar spindle.
Golgi bodies and mitochondria with tubular cristae are present, but not plastids; the nuclei show open orthomitosis during binary fission.
1991 October 3, Michael A. Sleigh, Protozoa and Other Protists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1392 more examples
The first is that division at any phase of the life eyele should be by this or that method (e.g., orthomitosis) and according to methods which have been studied in detail in the Metazoa.
1968, David Weinman, Miodrag Ristic, editors, Infectious Blood Diseases of Man and Animals, page 369In both closed intranuclear pleuromitosis and orthomitosis, the spindle remains entirely within the nucleus, though its positioning is different.
2010 December 7, Bernd Schierwater, Rob Desalle, editors, Key Transitions in Animal Evolution, CRC Press, page 12
Origin
Translations
Spanish ortomitosis
- ortomitosisform of mitosis
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