DAUGHTER CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daughter cell mean? 

• DAUGHTER CELL (noun)
  The noun DAUGHTER CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell

  Familiarity information: DAUGHTER CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAUGHTER CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell formed by the division or budding of another cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Context example:

anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identical

Hypernyms ("daughter cell" is a kind of...):

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)

 Context examples 

One of the central features of mitotic cell division is the formation of the spindle that segregates chromosomes into each daughter cell.

(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In some cells, as in many fungi and the fertilized eggs of many insects, nuclear division occurs within the cell unaccompanied by division of the cytoplasm and formation of daughter cells.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)

The mitotic cycle is complete when each daughter cell is surrounded by its own outer membrane.

(Mitotic cycle, NCI Dictionary)

The separation of chromosomes into daughter cells during cell division.

(Chromosome Segregation, NCI Thesaurus)

The complex series of phenomena, occurring between the end of one cell division and the end of the next, by which cellular material is divided between daughter cells.

(Cell Cycle Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The cell cycle is complete when each daughter cell is surrounded by its own outer membrane.

(Cell cycle, NCI Dictionary)

A biological process that occurs during mitosis to ensure proper chromosomal numbers in daughter cells.

(Mitotic Chromosomal Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The last cell cycle stage during which the replicated daughter chromosomes separate in to separate nuclei; cytokinesis then occurs to produce separate daughter cells.

(M Phase Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Progression through the stages of cell cycle, including G1-S-G2-M, culminates in cell growth and division into two daughter cells.

(Cell Cycle Progression, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora B kinase inhibitor TAK-901 binds to and inhibits the activity of Aurora B, which may result in a decrease in the proliferation of tumor cells that overexpress Aurora B. Aurora B is a positive regulator of mitosis that functions in the attachment of the mitotic spindle to the centromere; the segregation of sister chromatids to each daughter cell; and the separation of daughter cells during cytokinesis.

(Aurora B Serine/Threonine Kinase Inhibitor TAK-901, NCI Thesaurus)