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Definition of Meiotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to meiosis.

Definition of Meiotic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to meiosis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meiotic

1. meiosis [adj] - See also: meiosis

Medical Definition of Meiotic

1. Pertaining to meiosis. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meiotic

Literary usage of Meiotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transposable Elements in Plants: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and Bibliography by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"In both sectored lines, meiotic recombination of the sectoring Ac to the opposite homolog caused the phenotype to switch between the green/yellow and the ..."

2. Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards by Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, National Research Council (2006)
"'Some fraction of maternal recombination events, prior to the first meiotic division, apparently result in a chromosome 21 tetrad (paired chromosomes each ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"They explained the phenomenon of "sex ratio" on the basis of the regular nonfunctioning of meiotic products, as proposed for D. melanogaster (3). ..."

4. The Lancet (1898)
"The American writer prefers ••meiotic" (from .U'.'-TC, diminution, and "•'..•-.',,'.,, diminishing), arguing that there are no such words in Greek as ..."

5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"DIGBY, L., The somatic, premeiotic, and meiotic nuclear division of ... FRASER, HCI, The behavior of the chromatin in the meiotic divisions of Vicia Faba. ..."

6. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"Ann. Bot. 26: 845-855. pis. 62, 63. FRASER, HCI 1914. The behavior of the chromatin in the meiotic divisions of ..."

7. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"In some organisms, such as Neurospora crassa (red bread mold), tetrads consist of four spores in a linear order corresponding to the meiotic divisions; ..."

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