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Cleavage in general refers to a division or separation of form. Its usage is heavily dependent on cultural context, where it may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...
Cleavage (breasts), partial exposure of the separation between a woman's breasts
Cleavage (buttocks), partial exposure of buttock cheeks, particularly when visible because of low trousers
Cleavage (embryo), in embryology, is the division of cells in the early embryo
Cleavage (crystal), in mineralogy and materials science, is a process of splitting a single crystal
Teeth cleavage or tooth cleavage, slang for Diastema (dentistry), the gap between a person's two front teeth
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Thus, blastomere volume is decreased during cleavage to produce the small, individual cellular units that participate in the subsequent morphogenic events that mold the embryo.
Cleavage also increases the number of nuclei, which amplifies the number of templates that will facilitate the later production of specialized proteins needed for formation of a functional organism.
At the end of cleavage, the somatic cell cycle is established.
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