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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cell.

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Examples

  • For instance, when cells divide, the daughter-cell often has a different genome than its parent-cell.

    The Cambrian Revisited - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • 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

  • Various kinds of events can contribute to daughter-cell having a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.

    The vacuity of ID: Falsification - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • And sometimes the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.

    The vacuity of ID: Falsification - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • 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.

    Dog Bites Man - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • But a deity probably did not specifically intervene and cause the daughter-cell to have the genome that it did.

    The vacuity of ID: Falsification - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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