mother cell
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"If two cells share the same mother cell, we say they have the same lineage," Chung said.
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 megaspore mother cell is at the center.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
They increase rapidly in length, and becoming slightly contracted at the base, a wall is formed across at this point, shutting it off from the mother cell.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
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