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[G. mitos, thread.] Caryoclnesls, indirect nuclear division, the usual proce of cell-reproduction, asymmet'rical m., a form of mitosis in which the chromosomes are unequal In number In the two daughter nuclei, in consequence either of irregular distribution or of a reduction of chromosomes In one nucleus, game to genet'ic m., the proce of cell-dlvlslon characteristic of the ovum after tmlon with the spermatozoon, in which the number of chromosomes In each of the conjugating cells is reduced by one-half In order to preserve In the Impregnated ovum the number proper to the species were It not for this reduction of the chromosomes in these conjugating cells the number of chromosomes In the zygote would be thirty-two Instead of sixteen, het'erotype m., a variety of mitosis In which the halved chromosomes are united at their ends forming ring figures, multipo'lar m., a pathological form in