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blastomere

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blas·to·mere  (blst-mîr)
n.
Any of the cells resulting from the cleavage of a fertilized ovum during early embryonic development.
blasto·meric (-mîrk, -mr-) adj.
blastomere  (blst-mîr)
Any of the cells resulting from the cleavage of a fertilized ovum. In the initial stage of development, the blastomeres adhere to each other in a mass called a morula.
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Noun1.blastomere - any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg
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


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Female mice receiving oral administration of the insecticide lindane either before or immediately after mating increased blastomere lysis and suppressed cell proliferation of two-cell embryos and morulae (Scascitelli and Pacchierotti 2003).
Low-dose agrochemicals and lawn-care pesticides induce developmental ... by Berg, Richard L. / Environmental Health Perspectives
Essentially such research would be utilizing cells that in fact represent what is common to humans in the most basic sense; our common human nature in the blastomere is preindividual and prepersonal.
Remaking ourselves? The ethics of stem-cell research by Shannon, Thomas A. / Commonweal
During the 1970s, researchers relied on the same technique, known as blastomere separation, to produce identical twin mouse pups.
Cloning human embryos; exploring the science of a controversial ... by Fackelmann, Kathy A. / Science News
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