Floor Jansen

When a pregnancy begins, those cells begin their mitosis, and during the first three months, everything from limbs to organs to the brain and neurological system is being developed, and I never realized that would consume so much energy: it drains every bit of energy you have, and your hormonal status is changed dramatically!

Dutch Musician

H. Robert Horvitz

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

American Scientist

Jane Green

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

English Author

Mitosis is a biological event allowing growth, not an everyday occurrence.

Biological Events

The term 'mitosis' is typically used in scientific or educational contexts.

Academic Vocabulary

While mitosis means cell division, not all cell division is mitosis.

Not Synonymous

In mitosis, multicellular organisms' cells divide, unlike unicellular fission.

Different from Fission

Mitosis isn't a reproduction method but for growth and repair in multicellular organisms.

Not for Reproduction

Mitosis is a scientific term and not used in daily conversation.

Academic Term

 Okay, so these twin traditions are paralyzing us. It's very hard to get out of these twin traditions. And I have only one real message in this lecture, and that is, consciousness is a biological phenomenon like photosynthesis, digestion, mitosis --

Mitosis

Biological Events

Academic Vocabulary

Not Synonymous

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