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Home Dictionary Name: germ cellGerm cell
A cell of either sex directly concerned in the production of a new organism...
Gamete
A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual In Bot gamete designates esp the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation forming a zygospore The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts sperm male and egg female their union is called fertilization and the resulting zygote an ooumlspore In Zooumll gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms...
VerbarOvum
A more or less spherical and transparent cell which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells constituting a new individual like the parent an egg spore germ or germ cell See Illust of Mycropyle...
Mendels law
A principle governing the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants discovered by Gregor J Mendel Austrian Augustinian abbot 1822 84 in breeding experiments with peas He showed that the height color and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units In any given germ cell each of these is either present or absent...
To be confined in a cell
To be confined in a cell, the phrase 'to be confined in a cell' does not mean a solitary cell, and 'apart from all other prisoners' only connotes that in a cell where there are a plurality of inmates the death sentence will have to be kept separated from the rest in the same cell but not too close to the others, and under a guard, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administra-tion, AIR 1978 SC 1675: (1978) 4 SCC 494: (1979) 1 SCR 392....
Germ
That which is to develop a new individual as the germ of a fetus of a plant or flower and the like the earliest form under which an organism appears...
Germ theory
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs Cf Biogenesis Abiogenesis...
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners, the expression 'such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners' has a restricted meaning. It must be given a rational meaning to effectuate the purpose behind the provision so as not to attract the vice of solitary confinement. S. 366(2) of the Cr.P.C. enables the Court to commit the convicted person who is awarded capital punishment to jail custody under a warrant. It is implicit in the warrant that the prisoner is neither awarded simple nor rigorous imprisonment. The purpose of the sub-s. (2) s. 366 is to make available the prisoner when the sentence is required to be executed. He is being kept in jail custody. After the sentence becomes executable he may be kept in a cell apart from other prisoners with a day and night watch. But even here, unless special circumstances exist, he must be within the sight and sound of other prisoners and be able to take food in their company, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR...
Celled
Containing a cell or cells...
Bunsen cell
A zinc carbon cell in which the zinc amalgamated is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture the two plates being separated by a porous cup...
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