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Furrow

Furrow

1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty.

Origin: oe. Forow, forgh, furgh, as. Furh; akin to D. Voor, OHG. Furuh, g. Furche, dan. Fure, Sw. Fra, Icel. For drain, L. Porca ridge between two furrows.


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help! my biology teacher is trying to kill me!

... disappears and then reappears b)Cytokinesis does not occur c) four new cells (rather than two) are produced per mitotic division d) a cleavage furrow forms e) a cell plate forms 9.Two chromosomes in a nucleus that carry loci for the same traits in the same positions on the chromosome but specify ...

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by marnita
Sat May 31, 2008 10:44 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: help! my biology teacher is trying to kill me!
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difference between blastopore and primitive streak?

blastopore is a hole. primitive streak is a furrow. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_streak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastopore

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by MrMistery
Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:18 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: difference between blastopore and primitive streak?
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plane of division

the position of metaphase DNA and mitotic spindle pose the cleavage furrow to the middle of the cells called midbody.

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by malignanttumor
Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:11 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: cytokinesis
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plant and animal mitosis

Plant mitosis involves cell plate formation but animal cell involves cleavage furrow formation.....there are many complicated differences like formation of phragmoplast in plants(but not in animals),no centrioles in plants(but present in animals) etc....

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by rg
Mon May 22, 2006 5:38 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: plant and animal mitosis
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plant cell division

Due to the existance of the rigid cell wall, cytokinesis can not occur similar to animal cells, where a cleavage furrow appears. In animal cells, after the nucleus has divided, the gogi apparatus releases vesicles containing mostly cellulose that converge to the middle of the cell. ...

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by MrMistery
Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:37 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: plant cell division
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Views: 734
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