ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Protocell

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Protocell is a noun meaning (biology) A self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of phospholipids proposed as a stepping-stone to the origin of life.

Meaning

(biology) A self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of phospholipids proposed as a stepping-stone to the origin of life.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include protobiont, cell, organoid, cellome, chronocyte, chemoton.

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