Definition of Spore mother cell

1. Noun. Cell from which a spore develops.

Generic synonyms: Mother Cell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spore Mother Cell

sporadically
sporadin
sporadotrichina
sporal
sporange
sporanges
sporangia
sporangial
sporangiophore
sporangiophores
spore case
spore germination protease
spore mother cell (current term)
spore photoproduct lyase
spore print
spore prints
spore sac
sporebearing
spored
sporelike
sporeprint
sporeprints
spores
sporgeries
sporgery
sporicidal
sporicide

Literary usage of Spore mother cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"At some time in this growth period the nucleus of the spore mother-cell exhibits the phenomenon of synapsis, a very characteristic event, recognized by the ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"The spore-mother-cell from which the moving spore has escaped (fig. 8 k, k, I), only changes so far that the yellow-brown nucleus lying in it acquires a ..."

3. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"Spore-mother-cell after the formation of the four tertiary nuclei, x 250. 10. ... Spore-mother-cell at the commencement of division, ..."

4. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1899)
"Davis, BM The Spore-Mother-Cell of Antho- Anthoceros is a remarkably favorable ... The nucleus of the spore-mother-cell passes into synapsis soon after the ..."

5. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The view which is more generally held, and which is due to Strasburger, is that the cell which forms the embryo-sac is a spore-mother-cell which does not ..."

6. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"spore mother cell, but in the Red Algae and ... and ends with the division of the spore mother cell (Fig. 185). It may appear to you now as strange to ..."

7. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The four nuclei thus constituted have also half the number of chromosomes present in the nucleus of the spore-mother-cell; but the reduction is actually ..."

8. Investigations Representing the Departments; Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"In 1894 Farmer (8) reported a quadripolar spindle in spore mother-cell of ... According to this account, the chromatin of the spore mother-cell breaks up ..."

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