An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
MITOSIS
mitosis
(noun) cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mitosis (countable and uncountable, plural mitoses)
(cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.
Synonyms
• karyokinesis
• karyomitosis
Meronyms
• prophase
• metaphase
• anaphase
• telophase
Source: Wiktionary
Mi*to"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: See Karyokinesis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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