bicoids

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A form of bicoid — A gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.

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Meanings

bicoids1

noun
  1. pluralplural of bicoid

Bicoids2

noun
  1. pluralplural of Bicoid
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