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Daughter Cells

Daughter cells refer to the two new cells that are formed after a parent cell undergoes cell division. This term is commonly used in biology and is applicable to various organisms, including plants, animals, and bacteria.

Sense 1:

Noun: The two cells that result from the division of a single parent cell.

Example sentences:

1. During mitosis, the parent cell divides into two daughter cells with identical genetic information.
2. The daughter cells produced by meiosis have half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
3. Each daughter cell inherits a copy of the DNA from the parent cell.

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