cytoplasmic determinant

noun

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

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nouncytoplasmic determinant (plural cytoplasmic determinants)

plural cytoplasmic determinants

  1. biologyA 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
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    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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