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endoreduplication

Noun

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endoreduplication (countable and uncountable, plural endoreduplications)

(genetics) The replication of chromosomes without mitotic cell division.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Even in diploid organisms, many somatic cells are polyploid due to a process called endoreduplication where duplication of the genome occurs without mitosis (cell division). Source: Internet

Endomitosis is a variant of endoreduplication in which cells replicate their chromosomes during S phase and enter, but prematurely terminate, mitosis. Source: Internet

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