meiosis

1. Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells from diploid to haploid, leading to the production of gametes in animals and spores in plants.

2. Rhetorical understatement.

3. The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect .

4. The cellular process that results in the number of chromosomes in gamete-producing cells being reduced to one half and that involves a reduction division in which one of each pair of homologous chromosomes passes to each daughter cell and a mitotic division .

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meiosis	9	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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is	2

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5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
miosis	8
mioses	8

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
meiosis	9