(n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
(n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
(n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
(2) When the reactor is running, high-speed particles called neutrons strike the uranium atoms and cause them to split in a process known as nuclear fission.
(3) On the basis of hystological studies a description of fission and gastrulation in Microsomacanthus paramicrosoma (gasowska, 1931) is given.
(4) However, in conical cells the new oral apparatus and fission line form well posterior to the cell equator, so the opisthes are invariably smaller than proters.
(5) We have cloned the gene for the resident luminal ER protein BiP from the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
(6) A strain of fission yeast carrying replicating instability (RI) will segregate mitotically three types of cells: unstable (still RI-carrying) cells, stable identical mutants and stable non-mutants.
(7) The present data demonstrate that whereas most ssb caused by exposure to fission-spectrum neutrons can be rapidly repaired by both cell lines, a small but statistically significant fraction of the ssb induced by exposure to 6 Gy of neutrons is refractory to repair.
(8) 1965.-Thin sections of filterable hemolytic anemia agent of rat, now identified as Haemobartonella muris, revealed (i) that the agent is spherical or ellipsoidal and 350 to 700 mmu in size, (ii) that it has a single limiting membrane enclosing granules and some filaments (neither cell wall nor nucleoid was found), and (iii) that it is found preferentially at the surface and sometimes within the cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes in the circulating blood and bone marrow, and multiplies there through binary fission.
(9) The cyclin of fission yeast is the product of the cdc13 gene, which is known to interact with cdc2, a gene required for the entry into mitosis.
(10) of fission neutrons for the induction of yellow-green sectors in maize.
(11) Comparison of the identified fission sites of the B. subtilis neutral proteinase with the known substrate-specificity of the enzyme indicated that they were in agreement, showing a preference for the generation of fissions at the N-terminal side of large hydrophobic residues, such as leucine, isoleucine and methionine.
(12) These acrocentrics were also suggested to be originated from Robertsonian fission of the large metacentric M1 chromosome.
(13) In fission yeast the ability to undergo meiosis and sporulation is conferred by the matP+ and matM+ genes of the mating-type locus.
(14) Furthermore, the protein is highly similar to the fission yeast spi1 gene product [Matsumoto and Beach, Cell 66 (1991) 347-360].
(15) However, energy will either be provided from fossil fuels, nuclear fission or renewables.
(16) The ring-fission product of catechol was formed from phenol by a fluorescent Pseudomonas, that of 3-methylcatechol was formed from o-cresol and m-cresol, and the ring-fission product of 4-methylcatechol was given from p-cresol.
(17) The pho4 gene of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is regulated by thiamin.
(18) The author interprets the formation of exposure factors in a nuclear reactor accident, causes of the formation of a separated mixture of nuclear fission fragments and their principal radionuclide composition.
(19) A model of fission into subdivisions is superimposed on the previous branching process, and variation between subdivisions is considered.
(20) As measured by sectors per krad, mutagenic efficiency increased with increased dose of gamma-radiation; the opposite was true for fission neutrons.
Fissiparous
Definition:
(a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
(2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
(3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
(4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
(5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
(6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.