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caryokinesis

caryokinesis is the alternative form of karyokinesis.

Meaning of karyokinesis

Noun

karyokinesis (countable and uncountable, plural karyokineses)

  1. The process of change that takes place during the division of a cell nucleus at mitosis or meiosis.

Questions about caryokinesis

What is caryokinesis the alternative form of?
Caryokinesis is the alternative form of karyokinesis.

Words near caryokinesis in the dictionary

  1. caryocaraceous
  2. caryocinesis
  3. caryocyte
  4. caryodid
  5. caryodids
  6. caryokinesis
  7. caryokinetic
  8. caryology
  9. caryonidal
  10. caryonide
  11. caryonides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caryokinesis (page history and authors); karyokinesis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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