(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms
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• Expressive understatement
• Understatement
• The nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
• Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)