Sentence Examples. Â» more... It's peanut butter and jelly. I pushed the door slowly and found a case of water bottles, bread, peanut butter, crackers, cheese and several sealed containers of fruits and puddings.
discontinuous-not continuing without interruption in time or space; discontinuous applause; the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas; he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling. noncontinuous.
Nondisjunction is the failure of homologous chromosomes or chromatids to segregate during mitosis or meiosis. Nondisjunction during mitosis can result in cancer. Nondisjunction during meiosis results in one daughter cell having both of a pair of parental chromosomes with the other having none. It causes a mutation in the number of chromosomes, either extra chromosomes or missing chromosomes. Nondisjunction during meiosis can cause chromosomal disorders, such as trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), Turner's syndrome, and Klinefelter's syndrome.