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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The coming together and fusing of cell nuclei, as in fertilization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the union of two nuclei, as during the fertilization of the egg by the spermatozoön.
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- noun biology The
fusion of twonuclei within a cell, especially as the second stage ofsyngamy .
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Rose MD, Misra LM, Vogel JP (1989) KAR2, a karyogamy gene, is the yeast homolog of the mammalian BiP/GRP78 gene.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010
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Rose MD, Misra LM, Vogel JP (1989) KAR2, a karyogamy gene, is the yeast homolog of the mammalian BiP/GRP78 gene.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010
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Gammie AE, Stewart BG, Scott CF, Rose MD (1999) The two forms of karyogamy transcription factor Kar4p are regulated by differential initiation of transcription, translation, and protein turnover.
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Heck, if it takes place before karyogamy, I’m for it karyogamy is the unification of the nuclei of egg and sperm.
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