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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cell .
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Examples
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For instance, when cells divide, the daughter-cell often has a different genome than its parent-cell.
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By “mutation” I mean any cell-division other than meiosis in which the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of the parent-cell.
The New Yorker: Devolution by H. Allan Orr - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Various kinds of events can contribute to daughter-cell having a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.
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And sometimes the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.
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Finally, when cells divide, the daughter-cell often is a little different (in terms of genotype and phenotype) than its parent-cell, and when organisms sexually reproduce, the offspring always is a little different (in terms of genotype and phenotype) than both of its parents.
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But a deity probably did not specifically intervene and cause the daughter-cell to have the genome that it did.
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Each daughter-cell contracts and becomes more or less rounded, secretes a wall of its own, and by the bursting or absorption of the wall of its mother-cell becomes free.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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In this body, the cells from the first daughter-cell mentioned were inclosed, still undifferentiated: they formed the germ-cells of the next generation, and after maturity were ready to be ejected from the body, and to form new threadworms.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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The products of division of the other daughter-cell began to differentiate, and soon formed all the necessary kinds of cells to make up the body of the mature worm.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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We thus have one daughter-cell with 8 chromosomes and the other with 6.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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