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Germ cell   Listen
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Germ cell  n.  (Biol.) A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Germ cell" Quotes from Famous Books



... is really meant by "immortality" in a germplasm is continuity. That is, while an individual may consist of a colony of millions of cells, all of these spring from one cell and it a germ cell—the fertilized ovum. This first divides to form a new group of germ cells, which are within the embryo or new body when it begins to develop, and so on through indefinite generations. Thus the germ cells in an individual living to-day ...
— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard



Words linked to "Germ cell" :   gamete, reproductive cell, genital system



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