parent cell
noun
parent cells
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pluralof parent cell.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He’s using blood stem cells - parent cells that produce many others.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 13, 2018
He’s using blood stem cells — parent cells that produce many others.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2018
This permitted different combinations of good and bad mutations to pass to the genomes of different offspring of the same parent cells.
From Economist ● Feb. 24, 2016
The parent cells swap one of these micronuclei.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Throughout the biological world, genes generally travel vertically—i.e., from parents to children, or from parent cells to daughter cells.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
