a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.Plant cell
a cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant
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primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell; "anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identi…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell"
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Cell biology.(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants.Words connected by meaning
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The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.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: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.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: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.(biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.(biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, structural, functional, unit, plant.Explore Academic Dictionary
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