Parent Cell

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PC
Pronunciation
/ˈpɛrənt sɛl/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Laboratory

Examples in Context

  1. ( microbiology ) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.
  2. Somatic cells divide by mitosis producing daughter cells identical to the parent cell.
  3. Biological inheritance is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
  4. METHODS : LM-MCF-7 and MCF-7, two breast cancer cell lines with different metastatic potentials, derived from the same parent cell line, were used in our study.
  5. Then, the SOSP-M cell line with the high metastatic potential was selected and isolated from its parent cell line SOSP-9607 by using the model.

Other meanings of PC