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body cell

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noun

  1. somatic cell.


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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

The baby itself destroys its own body, cell by cell, in its play, its struggles and its crying.

From Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration by Coffman, C. J.

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