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alloplasms

alloplasms is the plural of alloplasm.

Meaning of alloplasm

Noun

alloplasm (countable and uncountable, plural alloplasms)

  1. Cytoplasm that has been modified to form cilia or flagella.
    • In Brassica, cytoplasmic male sterility has been reported in three alloplasms: (1) Raphanus cytoplasm combined with nuclear genomes of B. oleracea, B. napus (Bannerot et al. 1974; Roussetle and Renard 1978), and B. campestris (Williams and Heyn 1981) […]1990 February, S. Prakash, “Male sterility caused by cytoplasm of Brassica oxyrrhina in B. campestris and B. juncea”, in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, volume 79, number 2, page 285

Questions about alloplasms

What is alloplasms the plural of?
Alloplasms is the plural of alloplasm.

Words near alloplasms in the dictionary

  1. allophylic
  2. alloplasia
  3. alloplasm
  4. alloplasmatic
  5. alloplasmic
  6. alloplasms
  7. alloplast
  8. alloplastic
  9. alloplastically
  10. alloplasticity
  11. alloplastics

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