mother cells
- plural of mother cell.
Example Sentences
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The pollen-sacs are as a rule barren, the mother-cells undergoing atrophy, while normal grains are seen but rarely.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
These mother-cells are either separated from one another and float in the granular fluid which fills up the cavity of the pollen-sac, or are not so isolated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The basidia are called mother-cells because they produce the spores.
From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Dallas, Ellen M.
The behaviour of the chromosomes in meiosis or reduction division both in the pollen mother-cells and in the megaspore mother-cells which give rise to the so-called embryo-sac are fully described by Gates.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
Paranūclē′olus, a mass of substance extruded from the nucleus, in pollen and spore mother-cells before division.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
