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EUCARYOTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eucaryotic mean?
• EUCARYOTIC (adjective)
The adjective EUCARYOTIC has 1 sense:
1. having cells with 'good' or membrane-bound nuclei
Familiarity information: EUCARYOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having cells with 'good' or membrane-bound nuclei
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
eucaryotic; eukaryotic
Antonym:
procaryotic (having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei)
Pertainym:
eukaryote (an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with 'good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells)
Derivation:
eucaryote (an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with 'good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells)
Context examples
An insect cell-infecting virus that is used extensively in expression systems for recombinant proteins that require eucaryotic processing systems.
(Baculovirus Expression System, NCI Thesaurus)
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