Definitions
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- noun relative of the paramecium; often used in genetics research
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Examples
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A soluble factor that influences mating in tetrahymena called factor active in conjugation (FAC) has been identified.
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In the experiment, FAC was removed by washing the co-stimulated tetrahymena and resuspending them in fresh media.
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Next, she and Jack Szostak performed an experiment showing that telomeres from one species, a pond-dwelling single-celled organism called tetrahymena, could protect DNA molecules, or mini-chromosomes, from a very distant organism, yeast.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Speed Read 2009
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The implications that the whole machinery was conserved across kingdoms; that was obvious as soon as we saw that the tetrahymena telomeres worked in yeast.
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