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Cell nucleus   /sɛl nˈukliəs/   Listen
Cell nucleus

noun
1.
A part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction.  Synonyms: karyon, nucleus.






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"Cell nucleus" Quotes from Famous Books



... view." Weismann, who has most fully elaborated a hypothetical scheme of the relations of the intracellular units, identifies the larger of these units not with the ordinary granules of the cell, but with a remarkable structure called chromatin, which becomes aggregated within the cell nucleus at the time of cellular division—a structure which divides into definite parts and goes through some most suggestive manoeuvres in the process of cell multiplication. All these are puzzling structures; ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams



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