octad in English

noun
1
a group or set of eight.
After meiosis, the four meiotic products undergo an additional mitotic division to yield eight haploid nuclei, which differentiate into an octad of eight ascospores.
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1. Each Ascus usually contains eight ascospores (or octad), produced by meiosis followed, in most species, by a mitotic cell division.

2. An ascus (plural Asci; from Greek ἀσκός ảskós 'skin bag') is the sexual spore-bearing cell produced in ascomycete fungi.Each ascus usually contains eight ascospores (or octad), produced by meiosis followed, in most species, by a mitotic cell division