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Golgi complex
a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
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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.An organelle in the cytoplasm that breaks down waste materials and cellular debris
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A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.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: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.A neuropter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: netlike, structure, cytoplasm, animal, cells.
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