TELOPHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telophase mean? 

• TELOPHASE (noun)
  The noun TELOPHASE has 2 senses:

1. the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle

2. the final stage of mitosis

  Familiarity information: TELOPHASE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELOPHASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

phase of cell division (a stage in meiosis or mitosis)

Holonyms ("telophase" 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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The final stage of mitosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

phase of cell division (a stage in meiosis or mitosis)

Holonyms ("telophase" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

A cell division process consisting of a complex series of events or phases (prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) by means of which two daughter nuclei normally receive identical complements of the chromosomes and DNA content characteristic of the original somatic cells of the species.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)