mother cell

American  

[muhth-er sel] / ˈmʌð ər ˌsɛl /

noun

• mother cells
  plural

1. Cell Biology. a cell that produces other cells through division, often to contribute to growth or development in the organism.

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mother cell Scientific  

/ mŭth′ər /

1. See parent cell

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• mother cells
  plural

Example Sentences

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mother cell

"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

"If two cells share the same mother cell, we say they have the same lineage," Chung said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

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 megaspore mother cell divides by meiosis to produce four haploid megaspores.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The mother cell divides, the daughter cells resulting from the first division repeat the process, the third generation does the same, and so on.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various