KARWI

karwi, a town of british india, in the banda district of the united provinces, on a branch of the indian midland railway; pop. (1901), 7743. before the mutiny it was the residence of a mahratta noble, who lived in great state, and whose accumulations constituted the treasure afterwards famous as "the kirwee and banda prize money." karyogamy (gr. [greek: karuon], nut or kernel, thus "nucleus," and [greek: gamos], marriage), in biology: (1) the fusion of nuclei to form a single nucleus in syngamic processes (see reproduction); (2) the process of pairing in infusoria (q.v.), in which two migratory nuclei are interchanged and fuse with two stationary nuclei, while the cytoplasmic bodies of the two mates are in intimate temporary union.