cytoplasmic determinant

noun

Definitions

  1. A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells…

    A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.

    • Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.
    • A cytoplasmic determinant for dorsal axis formation in an early embryo of Xenopus laevis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cytoplasmic determinant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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