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PROPHASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first stage of mitosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("prophase" is a kind of...):
phase of cell division (a stage in meiosis or mitosis)
Holonyms ("prophase" is a part of...):
mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The first stage of meiosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("prophase" is a kind of...):
phase of cell division (a stage in meiosis or mitosis)
Meronyms (parts of "prophase"):
diakinesis (the final stage of the prophase of meiosis)
diplotene (the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis)
leptotene (the first stage of the prophase of meiosis)
pachytene (the third stage of the prophase of meiosis)
synezesis; synizesis (the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis)
zygotene (the second stage of the prophase of meiosis)
Holonyms ("prophase" is a part of...):
meiosis; miosis; reduction division ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))
