mother cell
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"If two individual cells have a same mosaic variant, they were born from a common mother cell that passed it to all of its daughters," Yang explained.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
The team found that the number of divisions a mother cell undertakes to restore its daughters to the correct starting size deviates from the mathematical optimum that was assumed to dictate this process.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023
More than a decade ago, Clevers identified a type of mother cell in the gut that can give birth to all other intestinal cells.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2017
The mother cell undergoes meiosis to form a tetrad of cells, which separate to form the pollen grains.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The traditions of the body are handed down from mother cell to daughter cell, though just what that means in terms of physiology or metabolism I do not know.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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