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cytoplasmically

cytoplasmically adverb: with regard to the cytoplasm.

Adverb

cytoplasmically (not comparable)

  1. With regard to the cytoplasm
    • In this case, cytoplasmically inherited traits are present in both males and females and are passed from mother to offspring, never from father to offspring. Reciprocal crosses, therefore, give different results when cytoplasmic genes encode a trait.2012, Benjamin A. Pierce, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, page 118

Origin of cytoplasmically

From cytoplasmic + -ally.

Words formed from cytoplasmically

Questions about cytoplasmically

What does cytoplasmically mean?
Cytoplasmically means with regard to the cytoplasm.
What part of speech is cytoplasmically?
Cytoplasmically is an adverb.

Words near cytoplasmically in the dictionary

  1. cytoplasmic membrane
  2. cytoplasmic membranes
  3. cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus
  4. cytoplasmic polyhedrosis viruses
  5. cytoplasmic streaming
  6. cytoplasmically
  7. cytoplasmolysis
  8. cytoplasmon
  9. cytoplasms
  10. cytoplast
  11. cytoplastic

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