Sentence examples for parent organism from inspiring English sources

Budding, in biology, a form of asexual reproduction in which a new individual develops from some generative anatomical point of the parent organism.

The two members (alleles) of a gene pair, one on each of paired chromosomes, separate during the formation of sex cells by a parent organism.

Proteins have no nucleic acids and so no means of reproducing or replicating -- yet Prusiner was proposing that they could spread like an infection, taking over healthy proteins and making them lethal to the parent organism.

IT has been reported1 that crude Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide when injected by the subcutaneous route was incapable of protecting mice against a lethal challenge dose of the parent organism.

In some organisms, however, extensive and apparently indefinite growth takes place and reproduction may occur by division of a single parent organism, as in many protists, including bacteria, algae, and protozoans.

The law of segregation is explained by the fact that during gametogenesis, each gamete (sex cell) receives only one of each chromosome pair from its parent organism.

In GYE liquid medium parent organisms produced a cellulose pellicle, the medium under the pellicle remaining virtually clear.

In instances when two parent organisms each carry two mutant genes in a homozygous recessive state, causing the recessive trait to be expressed, the complementation test can determine whether the recessive trait will be expressed in the next generation.

Vegetative reproduction, which occurs commonly in plants and occasionally in lower animals, is a process by which whole new organisms may be produced from fractions of parent organisms; e.g., when a new plant develops from a cut portion of another plant, or when certain worms reproduce by splitting in two, each half then growing what was left behind.

The gamete pool contains all the successful gametes of the parent organisms.

Offspring were separated from the parent organisms once a week to be used in the exposure tests.