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DAUGHTER CELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cell formed by the division or budding of another cell
Example:
anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identical
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("daughter cell" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Context examples:
A process that consists of interference with, or restraint of, activities that regulate the cellular capacity to transit the last cell cycle stage during which replicated daughter chromosomes separate into separate nuclei and cytokinesis occurs to produce separate daughter cells.
(Negative Regulation of Mitosis, NCI Thesaurus)
The cell then divides into two daughter cells, each receiving one copy of the doubled material.
(Cell cycle, NCI Dictionary)
The cell cycle is an ordered set of events, culminating in cell growth and division into two daughter cells.
(Cell Cycle Process, NCI Thesaurus)
