body cell
Americannoun
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DNA is removed from a camel egg cell and replaced with DNA from a frozen body cell of a camel prized for some quality such as speed or beauty.
From Reuters • May 25, 2023
An organism’s ploidy count is the total number of chromosome sets contained in each body cell.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In this cloning technology, technicians replace the nucleus of an egg cell with a nucleus taken from a body cell.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 13, 2022
Using methods that start with tissue cells called fibroblasts, researchers can engineer stem cells, which are cells capable of becoming any kind of body cell.
From Scientific American • Mar. 13, 2018
Thus it comes that, even in the adult, every body cell is made up of chromosomes from each parent, and may hence inherit characters from each.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
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