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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cytula.
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Examples
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And sometimes the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.
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For instance, when cells divide, the daughter-cell often has a different genome than its parent-cell.
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Various kinds of events can contribute to daughter-cell having a genome that is different than the genome of its parent-cell.
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By “mutation” I mean any cell-division other than meiosis in which the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of the parent-cell.
The New Yorker: Devolution by H. Allan Orr - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Finally, when cells divide, the daughter-cell often is a little different (in terms of genotype and phenotype) than its parent-cell, and when organisms sexually reproduce, the offspring always is a little different (in terms of genotype and phenotype) than both of its parents.
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In the first case the separated cells assume the character of the parent-cell whose division gave rise to them; in the second case they form filaments, or, if the further elongation and divisions of the cells proceed in different directions, plates or spheroidal or other shaped colonies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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This first effort was in a certain sense the parent-cell, which little by little gathered to itself the elements necessary for the final composition of the work.
Honore de Balzac Albert Keim 1911
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The newly-formed parent-cell, or fertilised egg-cell, contains potentially, in their rudiments, all the bodily and mental characteristics which the child inherits from both parents.
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Therefore, where the parent-cell is an ovum, it follows from this view that all hereditary qualities of the future organism are potentially present in the ultra-microscopical structure of the chromatin fibres.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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