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pro-oocyte

pro-oocyte noun: an undifferentiated germline cell with the potential to become an oocyte.

Noun

pro-oocyte (plural pro-oocytes)

  1. An undifferentiated germline cell with the potential to become an oocyte.
    • In D. melanogaster, the nuclei of pro-oocytes and young oocytes are unsuitable for detailed cytological study at the light microscope level because of their small size.1970 February 28, Robert C. King, “The Meiotic Behavior of the Drosophila Ooctye”, in International Review of Cytology, volume 28, page 129
    • Two of the sixteen germline cells in each egg chamber develop as pro-oocytes, and the first asymmetry arises when one of these cells is selected to become the oocyte.1997, Acaimo González-Reyes et al., “Oocyte determination and the origin of polarity in Drosophila: the role of the spindle genes”, in Development, volume 124, pages 4927–4937

Forms of pro-oocyte

pluralpro-oocytes

Origin of pro-oocyte

From pro- + oocyte.

Questions about pro-oocyte

What does pro-oocyte mean?
Pro-oocyte means an undifferentiated germline cell with the potential to become an oocyte.
What part of speech is pro-oocyte?
Pro-oocyte is a noun.
What is the plural of pro-oocyte?
The plural of pro-oocyte is pro-oocytes.

Words near pro-oocyte in the dictionary

  1. pro-matrix metalloproteinase
  2. pro-mia
  3. pro-mias
  4. pro-Muslim
  5. pro-nuclear
  6. pro-oocyte
  7. pro-oocytes
  8. pro-Pali
  9. pro-Palis
  10. pro-peptide
  11. pro-peptides

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