In October 2005, Jim Leyland, who managed Dombrowski's 1997 World Seriesâwinning Marlins club, replaced Trammell as manager; two months later, in response to Troy Percival's '05 arm problems, closer Todd Jones, who had spent five seasons in Detroit (1997â2001), signed a two-year deal to return to the Tigers.
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to cell cycle: cell division, mitosis, meiosis. n. The series of events involving the growth, replication, and division of a eukaryotic cell.
In biology, a biological life cycle is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state. The concept is closely related to those of the life history, development and ontogeny, but differs from them in stressing renewal. Transitions of form may involve growth, asexual reproduction, or sexual reproduction. In some organisms, different generations of the species succeed each other during the life cycle. For plants and many algae, there are two multicellula