body cells

collocation in English

meaningsofbodyandcell

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body
noun
uk
/ˈbɒd.i/us
/ˈbɑː.di/
the whole physical structure that forms a person ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk
/sel/us
/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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(Definition ofbodyandcellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The spirochaete stage occurs in the coelomic fluid of the tick, but not within its body cells.
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The total of hereditary material is therefore eventually distributed throughout all the body cells.
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They hope one day this will make it possible to perform therapeutic cloning by creating artificial eggs from patients' body cells.
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That is probably the case because body cells have mechanisms that continuously repair damage to their genetic material.
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This is the subject about which we are talking tonight: the function of mineral matter in the body cells of animals and plants.
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There is a statistical risk of the resulting damage to body cells and changes in their system of reproduction leading ultimately to the development of cancer.
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If the spinal cord is injured, even slightly bruised, the neurons can not repair themselves like other body cells can.
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Asexually reproducing species have one set of chromosomes, which are the same in all body cells.
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From their observations, they concluded that quickly dividing tumor cells are generally more sensitive than the majority of body cells.
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The transplanted immune cells then attack the host's body cells.
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Fortunately, our cell lineage tree is implicitly encoded in our cells genomes via mutations that accumulate when body cells divide.
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There are also affected cells in the gut cells that then affect the haemocoel and then are detected in a few fat body cells.
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The muscle cells are the largest cells in the body with a volume thousands of times larger than most other body cells.
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It has been researched extensively for its capabilities as an alternative antibiotic as it is harmless to human body cells while being cytotoxic to bacteria.
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Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm of normal body cells, or the sarcoplasm of muscle cells.
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People with idic(15) are typically born with 47 chromosomes in their body cells, instead of the normal 46.
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