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Meiosis is the formation of egg and sperm cells. In sexually reproducing organisms, body cells are diploid, meaning they contain two sets of chromosomes (one set from each parent).
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Metaphase is a stage during the process of cell division (mitosis or meiosis).
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A Golgi body, also known as a Golgi apparatus, is a cell organelle that helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell.
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A germ line is the sex cells (eggs and sperm) that are used by sexually reproducing organisms to pass on genes from generation to generation.
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A cell cycle is a series of events that takes place in a cell as it grows and divides.
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Endoplasmic reticulum is a network of membranes inside a cell through which proteins and other molecules move.
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Dr. Sharon Milgram is an adjunct investigator in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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NHGRI researchers, collaborators at the University of California (UC) San Diego, UC Davis and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine lay out a new framework for comparing dog-to-human aging, one that uses epigenetics as a biological marker to better understand the aging process.
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A chromatid is one of two identical halves of a replicated chromosome.
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Messenger RNA (abbreviated mRNA) is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis.