cytoplasmic determinant
English
Noun
cytoplasmic determinant (plural cytoplasmic determinants)
- (biology) A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.
- 1965 Arnold Warren Ravin - The Evolution of Genetics
- Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.
- 2000 David G. Drubin - Cell Polarity
- A cytoplasmic determinant for dorsal axis formation in an early embryo of Xenopus laevis.
- 1965 Arnold Warren Ravin - The Evolution of Genetics