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
As you might imagine, it is very important that DNA replication take place precisely so that new cells in the body contain the exact same genetic material as their parent cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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
