(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may…
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one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis
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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…
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 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 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.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.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.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.a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex…
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 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 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)
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T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.Organelles in plant cells that carry out photosynthesis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.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: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two gro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, atte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pair, small, cylindrical, cell, organelles.disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies
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