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মিয়োসিস — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • meiosis noun A type of cell division that produces four sex cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. It happens in two rounds and shuffles genetic material, so no two gametes are identical.

Senses

মিয়োসিস is used for these senses in English:

meiosis — full definition

  1. noun A type of cell division that produces four sex cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. It happens in two rounds and shuffles genetic material, so no two gametes are identical.
  2. noun A figure of speech in which something is deliberately described as smaller or less important than it is, for ironic effect.
  3. noun Abnormal narrowing of the pupil of the eye, more usually spelled miosis.