All 13 Uses
nucleus
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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- Under the microscope, a cell looks a lot like a fried egg: It has a white (the cytoplasm) that's full of water and proteins to keep it fed, and a yolk (the nucleus) that holds all the genetic information that makes you you.†
Chpt Prol.nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
- All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus.†
Chpt Prol.
- The nucleus is the brains of the operation; inside every nucleus within each cell in your body, there's an identical copy of your entire genome.†
Chpt Prol.
- The nucleus is the brains of the operation; inside every nucleus within each cell in your body, there's an identical copy of your entire genome.†
Chpt Prol.
- But they don't never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.†
Chpt Deb. *nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta's cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage.†
Chpt 2.13
- Scientists cut HeLa cells in half to show that cells could live on after their nuclei had been removed, and used them to develop methods for injecting substances into cells without destroying them.†
Chpt 2.13
- Her cells have been blowed up in nuclear bombs.†
Chpt 2.21nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Inside each nucleus, if we could zoom in closer, you'd see a piece of DNA that looked like this.†
Chpt 3.32nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
- There's forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus.†
Chpt 3.32
- See how it has a big nucleus that looks like it's almost pinched in half in the middle?†
Chpt 3.32
- You know they shot my mother cells into space and blew her up with nuclear bombs?†
Chpt 3.35nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Beyond simply knowing their tissues are being used in research, some tissue-rights activists believe donors should have the right to say, for example, that they don't want their tissues used for research on nuclear weapons, abortion, racial differences, intelligence, or anything else that might run contrary to their beliefs.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(nucleus) the center (or most important part) of somethingsuch as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)