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n. - A biologist who studies the structure and function of cells.

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  • A cytologist himself, Hertwig saw the intricate structures already part of the unfertilized egg, and the changes that occur with fertilization.
  • In the year 1900 the American cytologist E.B. Wilson, whose own work on genetic continuity was to be so fruitful, wrote in the first edition of The Cell in Development...
  • In other words, the so-called "heterochromatin" with which the cytologist deals in studying mitotic chromosomes is a quite different thing from, although in the...
  • German zoologist and cytologist, known especially for his researches in microscopic anatomy.
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