adjective
- relating to or characterized by endomitosis; involving DNA replication and nuclear division without cell division, resulting in polyploid nuclei.
Usage: biology; technical
Examples
- Endomitotic cells can be found in certain plant tissues and some animal tissues.
- The liver contains endomitotic hepatocytes with multiple copies of the genome.
- Endomitotic divisions increase nuclear DNA content without increasing cell number.
- Some insects undergo endomitotic cycles during development to increase cell size.
- Researchers studied endomitotic processes in endosperm tissue of developing seeds.