A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
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transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of energy
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.A biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of all cells from the outside environment
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus"
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus"
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Cell biology.An organelle in the cytoplasm that breaks down waste materials and cellular debris
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RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.Trial; attempt; essay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; excl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.of Centre
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.of Centre
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexibl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the dire…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.The nucleus within a nucleus; nucleolus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: transport, substance, protein, drug, across.
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