Meaning & use
amitotic
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Relating to or occurring by amitosis, a direct form of cell division without the formation of a spindle apparatus.
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Certain single-celled organisms reproduce through amitotic division.
Amitotic splitting is simpler but less precise than mitotic division.
A note on using this word
The prefix 'a-' means 'without,' so amitotic literally means 'without mitosis.'
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