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  2. Cell polarity - Wikipedia

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    Classical examples of polarized cells are described below, including epithelial cells with apical-basal polarity, neurons in which signals propagate in one direction from dendrites to axons, and migrating cells. Furthermore, cell polarity is important during many types of asymmetric cell division to set up functional asymmetries between ...

  3. Polarity in embryogenesis - Wikipedia

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    In amphibians, the development of the animal-vegetal axis occurs prior to fertilization. [1] Sperm entry can occur anywhere in the animal hemisphere. [2] The point of sperm entry defines the dorso-ventral axis - cells opposite the region of sperm entry will eventually form the dorsal portion of the body. [1] [3]

  4. Crystal structure - Wikipedia

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    The unit cell is defined as the smallest repeating unit having the full symmetry of the crystal structure. [2] The geometry of the unit cell is defined as a parallelepiped , providing six lattice parameters taken as the lengths of the cell edges ( a , b , c ) and the angles between them (α, β, γ).

  5. Hexagonal crystal family - Wikipedia

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    In either case, there are 3 lattice points per unit cell in total and the lattice is non-primitive. The Bravais lattices in the hexagonal crystal family can also be described by rhombohedral axes. [4] The unit cell is a rhombohedron (which gives the name for the rhombohedral lattice). This is a unit cell with parameters a = b = c; α = β = γ ...

  6. Plant embryonic development - Wikipedia

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    Then the zygote undergoes an asymmetric transverse cell division that gives rise to two cells - a small apical cell resting above a large basal cell. [9] [10] These two cells are very different, and give rise to different structures, establishing polarity in the embryo. apical cell The small apical cell is on the top and contains most of the ...

  7. Crystal system - Wikipedia

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    A symmetry direction of a crystal that is polar is called a polar axis. [2] Groups containing a polar axis are called polar. A polar crystal possesses a unique polar axis (more precisely, all polar axes are parallel). Some geometrical or physical property is different at the two ends of this axis: for example, there might develop a dielectric ...

  8. Tetragonal crystal system - Wikipedia

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    An example of the tetragonal crystals, wulfenite Two different views (top down and from the side) of the unit cell of tP30-CrFe (σ-phase Frank–Kasper structure) that show its different side lengths, making this structure a member of the tetragonal crystal system. In crystallography, the tetragonal crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.

  9. Asymmetric cell division - Wikipedia

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    In principle, there are two mechanisms by which distinct properties may be conferred on the daughters of a dividing cell. In one, the daughter cells are initially equivalent but a difference is induced by signaling between the cells, from surrounding cells, or from the precursor cell. This mechanism is known as extrinsic asymmetric cell division.