CYTOKINESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytokinesis mean? 

• CYTOKINESIS (noun)
  The noun CYTOKINESIS has 1 sense:

1. organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells

  Familiarity information: CYTOKINESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOKINESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("cytokinesis" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Holonyms ("cytokinesis" 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))

mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes kinesin-like protein KIF23, plays a role in microtubule motor activity, mitotic spindle formation and cytokinesis.

(KIF23 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in mitotic spindle assembly, cytokinesis and microtubule-dependent motor activity.

(Kinesin-Like Protein KIF23, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in cytokinesis and microtubule movement.

(KIF23 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes protein ECT2, is involved in the modulation of apoptosis, cytokinesis and signal transduction.

(ECT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes dedicator of cytokinesis protein 1, plays a role in cytoskeletal remodeling necessary for both cell motility/migration and phagocytosis of apoptotic cells.

(DOCK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes serine/threonine-protein kinase LATS1 protein, plays a role in cell cycle regulation and cytokinesis.

(LATS1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The last cell cycle stage during which the replicated daughter chromosomes separate in to separate nuclei; cytokinesis then occurs to produce separate daughter cells.

(M Phase Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Although used interchangeably with cell division, strictly speaking the term mitosis refers to nuclear division; cytokinesis refers to division of the cytoplasm.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both cell shape and cytokinesis.

(Myosin-9, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes myosin-9 protein, plays a role in both cytokinesis and cell shape.

(MYH9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)