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PRONUCLEUS
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Irregular inflected form: pronuclei
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The nucleus of the ovum or sperm after fertilization but before they fuse to form the nucleus of the zygote
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pronucleus" is a kind of...):
cell nucleus; karyon; nucleus (a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction)
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