The viral DNA is injected through the tail into the host cell, where it directs the production of progeny phages.
These cells possess the ability to divide and create progeny - some of which will eventually expire, others that are self-renewing.
The progeny resembled one of the other of the parents.
As radon progeny decay, they emit radioactive alpha particles and attach to aerosols, dust and other particles in the air.
A giraffe, for example, might grow a longer neck because it was useful for eating food that other giraffes could not reach. Its progeny would then inherit the attribute.
The highest number of female progeny was recorded on flowering stem, and then on shallot.
So its progeny have double the normal amount of chromosomes, which they randomly toss off till they're near the right number again.
Nectarines are the progeny of a cross between a plum and a peach.
Ranged in the beds, a numerous progeny.
It has been shown, for example, to interfere with the body's immune response, so men who are able to maintain high levels of the hormone are typically strong and healthy— traits women would want to pass on to their progeny.
The poor failed to reproduce themselves and the progeny of the rich took over their occupations.
As a result, radon progeny may be deposited on the cells lining the airways where the alpha particles can damage the DNA and potentially cause lung cancer.
In addition, the gene for the glowing protein is passed on by the cancer cells as they replicate, so that their progeny glow too.
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