dicty
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A tiny slime mold used in labs to study how cells move and join together
- noun
- /ˈdɪkti/
- Jargon
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Dictyostelium
- Scientists consider dicty to be a valuable organism for researching developmental processes.
Examples
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Would we find the "dicty" community welcoming and cooperative, or skeptical and distrustful of admittedly ignorant outsiders like us?
Academic text (2007) -
The researcher used dicty for her experiments because it is a well-studied model organism.
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In biology class, we learned about dicty, which is often used to study cell communication.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dicty is a short lab name for the slime mold Dictyostelium. The root dicty- means 'net', and because the cells join into a network, scientists use dicty to mean that organism.
