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ぶんれつ 分裂
Common word JLPT N1 Wanikani level 43 Play audio Links
Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb
1. split; division; break up​
Wikipedia definition
2. Fission (biology)​1: The bacterium before binary fission is when the DNA tightly coiled. 2: The DNA of the bacterium has replicated. 3: The DNA is pulled to the separate poles of the bacterium as it increases size to prepare for splitting. 4: The growth of a new cell wall begins to separate the bacterium. 5: The new cell wall fully develops, resulting in the complete split of the bacterium. 6: The new daughter cells have tightly coiled DNA, ribosomes, and plasmids.
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