Meiotic synonyms

The two divisions of the spore mother cell in which the reduction takes place, follow each other very rapidly and are known as Heterotype and Homotype (Flemming), or according to the terminology of Farmer and Moore (1905) as the meiotic phase.

It seems to be fairly well established that in the meiotic phase there is a truequalitative division brought about by the pairing of the chromosomes during synapsis, and the subsequent separation of whole chromosomes to the daughter nuclei.

The first meiotic division is now completed, and the oocyte is now a secondary oocyte, and starts its second meiotic division.

Using meiotic recombination in yeast to map gene locations.