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


Type of:
  • living thing; animate thing

Types:
  • recombinant
  • blastomere
  • flagellated cell
  • fiber; fibre
  • Kupffer's cell
  • beta cell
  • somatic cell; vegetative cell
  • blastema
  • zygote; fertilized ovum
  • parthenote
  • embryonic cell; formative cell
  • akaryocyte; akaryote; acaryote
  • reproductive cell; germ cell; sex cell
  • gametocyte
  • polar body
  • Leydig cell; Leydig's cell
  • Sertoli cell; Sertoli's cell
  • plant cell
  • archespore; archesporium
  • daughter cell
  • mother cell
  • arthrospore
  • arthrospore


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