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pro-oocytes

pro-oocytes is the plural of pro-oocyte.

Meaning of pro-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

Questions about pro-oocytes

What is pro-oocytes the plural of?
Pro-oocytes is the plural of pro-oocyte.

Words near pro-oocytes in the dictionary

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

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