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cytoplasmic determinants

cytoplasmic determinants is the plural of cytoplasmic determinant.

Meaning of cytoplasmic determinant

Noun

cytoplasmic determinant (plural cytoplasmic determinants)

  1. A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.
    • Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.1965, Arnold Warren Ravin, The Evolution of Genetics

Questions about cytoplasmic determinants

What is cytoplasmic determinants the plural of?
Cytoplasmic determinants is the plural of cytoplasmic determinant.

Words near cytoplasmic determinants in the dictionary

  1. cytoplasm
  2. cytoplasmatic
  3. cytoplasmatically
  4. cytoplasmic
  5. cytoplasmic determinant
  6. cytoplasmic determinants
  7. cytoplasmic membrane
  8. cytoplasmic membranes
  9. cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus
  10. cytoplasmic polyhedrosis viruses
  11. cytoplasmic streaming

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