HETEROKARYON


Meaning of HETEROKARYON in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌhe-tə-rō-ˈker-ē-ˌän, -ən, -ˈka-rē- ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from heter- + karyon, nucleus, from Greek, nut, kernel

Date: 1941

: a cell (as in the mycelium of a fungus) that contains two or more genetically unlike nuclei

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