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Gametocyte
an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis
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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 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)
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.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: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.The act of differentiating.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: immature, animal, plant, cell, develops.
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