One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
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a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Cell biology.any cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Cell biology.A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Cell biology.An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.See Bacterium.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent var…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any family of amphibians
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any genus of amphibians
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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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.of Bud
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.A biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of all cells from the outside environment
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.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, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cell, organism, genetic, recombination, occurred.(biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associ…
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