nuclear transplantation
- noun
- /ˈnjuːklɪər ˌtrænspɒlˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
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trasplante nuclear
- Nuclear transplantation in amphibians using embryonic cells as nuclear donors.
Examples
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These primitive nuclear transplantation (cloning) experiments affirmed the view that the complete genome is replicated during cell division, at least during early cleavage.
Academic text (1999) -
Although the method of nuclear transplantation should be valuable principally for the study of nuclear differentiation, it may also have other uses.
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Figure 5. Nuclear transplantation in the rhesus monkey (upper left).
Academic text (1999) -
In 1949, Briggs began searching for a research fellow to develop a nuclear transplantation procedure for the North American leopard frog, Rana pipiens.
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Nuclear transplantation allows scientists to move a nucleus from one cell to another, facilitating cloning experiments.
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Nuclear transplantation involves transferring the genetic material of one cell into another cell in biological research.
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The process of nuclear transplantation is essential for understanding developmental biology and cloning techniques.
Synonyms
A lab method for making clones by moving a body cell's center into an egg cell without one
A method of putting the nucleus from a body cell into an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed
A cloning method that puts a body cell's nucleus into an egg cell without a nucleus
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — moving a cell nucleus from one cell to another — is directly and compositionally derivable from 'nuclear' (relating to the cell nucleus) + 'transplantation' (moving/removing biological material). Although the phrase is technical, its parts combine in a regular, cross-linguistically familiar way, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
The noun nuclear transplantation comes from the image of taking a cell's nucleus, the tiny 'control room' that holds its genes, and putting it into another cell like a transplant. So the term means 'moving a cell's genes into another cell to make a new embryo or clone'.
