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Wednesday 20 August 2014

T. thermophila: a model organism in experimental Biology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahymena

As a ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila exhibits nuclear dimorphism: two types of cell nuclei. They have a bigger, non-germline macronucleus and a small, germline micronucleus in each cell at the same time and they both carry out different functions with distinct cytological and biological properties.

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