Definition of cell organ Cell organ
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| cell organ - a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus" | ||
| organelle, cell organelle | ||
| organ wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard | ||
| cell (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | ||
| cilium a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms | ||
| lysosome an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | ||
| cell nucleus, karyon, nucleus a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction | ||
| nucleole, nucleolus a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | ||
| chondriosome, mitochondrion an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | ||
| centriole one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis | ||
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