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- noun biology The study of the structure of
cells .
Etymologies
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cyto- + morph + -ology
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Thus the chromosome theory of inheritance assumed that the regularities of character transmission were grounded in cytomorphology, in particular the nuclear morphology with its individual chromosomes keeping their identity over the generations (Coleman 1965; Martins 1999).
Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009
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