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.
Word Forms
- protocells
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include protobiont, cell, organoid, cellome, chronocyte, chemoton.
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