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- noun Plural form of
macronucleus .
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Examples
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Similarly, amitotic divisions of macronuclei in ciliates may result in unequal distributions of DNA to daughter nuclei These deviations are sensed in each daughter cell.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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Details of conjugation and macronuclei not made out.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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