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  2. Cell (music) - Wikipedia

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    "A cell can be developed, independent of its context, as a melodic fragment, it can be used as a developmental motif. It can be the source for the whole structure of the work; in that case it is called a generative cell." [2] Tresillo, a rhythmic cell of the tango and habanera. [3] [4] Play ⓘ A rhythmic cell is a cell without melodic ...

  3. Golgi apparatus - Wikipedia

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    The Golgi apparatus (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ l dʒ i /), also known as the Golgi complex, Golgi body, or simply the Golgi, is an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells. [1] Part of the endomembrane system in the cytoplasm, it packages proteins into membrane-bound vesicles inside the cell before the vesicles are sent to their destination.

  4. Centrosome - Wikipedia

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    The centrosome is copied only once per cell cycle, so that each daughter cell inherits one centrosome, containing two structures called centrioles. The centrosome replicates during the S phase of the cell cycle. During the prophase in the process of cell division called mitosis, the centrosomes migrate to opposite poles of the cell. The mitotic ...

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]

  6. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms.

  7. Endomembrane system - Wikipedia

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    The solution that these molecules are stored in is called the cell sap. Pigments that color the cell are sometime located in the cell sap. Vacuoles can also increase the size of the cell, which elongates as water is added, and they control the turgor pressure (the osmotic pressure that keeps the cell wall from caving in). Like lysosomes of ...

  8. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    The 1948 American film Call Northside 777 features a scene filmed on location at the Stateville Penitentiary near Chicago, inside the so-called "Roundhouse," a panopticon cell block built according to Bentham's original concept, with the important difference that the central guard tower had transparent windows, making the positions and ...

  9. Metaphor: The Tree of Utah - Wikipedia

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    Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, sometimes called the Tree of Life, is an 87-foot-tall (27 m) sculpture that was created by the Swedish artist Karl Momen in the 1980s and dedicated in 1986. It is located in the desolate Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah on the west bound side of Interstate 80 , about 25 miles (40 km) east of Wendover and midway between ...