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pole cell

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Synonyms: bone cell, cone cell, le cell, polar cell

Antonyms: bone cell, cone cell, le cell, polar cell

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Noun

  1. A type of cell that forms at the anterior and posterior poles of a Drosophila (fruit fly) egg, which comes to derive the adult germ cells.

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