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cytoplasmic determinant en · NOUN
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A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.
A cytoplasmic determinant for dorsal axis formation in an early embryo of Xenopus laevis.
2000, David G. Drubin, Cell Polarity:Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.
1965, Arnold Warren Ravin, The Evolution of Genetics:
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