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meiosis
noun(mei-o-sis)
the presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect : understatement
meiosis
noun(mei-o-sis)
the cellular process that results in the number of chromosomes in gamete-producing cells being reduced to one half and that involves a reduction division in which one of each pair of homologous chromosomes passes to each daughter cell and a mitotic division

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