organelle
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See also: Organelle
English
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[edit]organelle (plural organelles)
- (cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
- Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.
- 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:
- The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
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[edit]a membrane bound compartment found within cells
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[edit]organelle f (plural organelles)
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[edit]- → Turkish: organel
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