Abscission (from the Latin ab meaning away and scindere meaning to cut) is the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process by which a plant intentionally drops one or more of its parts, such as a leaf, fruit, flower or seed, though the term is also used to describe the shedding of a claw by an animal, and is also the word used to describe the separation of daughter cells at the end of cytokinesis, a process that generally begins immediately following mitotic telophase. Use A… (More on Abscission)