Why is the term daughter cells used to denote blastomere cells?
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Naming cells daughter cells would make sense if you think of them as future mother cells giving rise to more daughter cells- because at the level of cells where the male/female dichotomy should not generally exist (and I say generally because you can make an exception for cells like gametes) if you have to use a sex to classify them, daughter cells would still make more sense. To take this logic further, cells that stop growing after differentiation could be called son cells, since they are unable to grow and divide further. Infact by this logic brain cells would be son cells- something that might incense more people and generate more questions of this kind in future! To be stricter about the nomenclature we might just call them offspring cells but daughter cells are an understood, accepted, scientifically used term to generally describe cells generated after division. I wouldn’t mind discussions on semantics in biology but I don’t believe this one goes any deeper.
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Naming cells daughter cells would make sense if you think of them as future mother cells giving rise to more daughter cells- because at the level of cells where the male/female dichotomy should not generally exist (and I say generally because you can make an exception for cells like gametes) if you have to use a sex to classify them, daughter cells would still make more sense. To take this logic further, cells that stop growing after differentiation could be called son cells, since they are unable to grow and divide further. Infact by this logic brain cells would be son cells- something that might incense more people and generate more questions of this kind in future! To be stricter about the nomenclature we might just call them offspring cells but daughter cells are an understood, accepted, scientifically used term to generally describe cells generated after division. I wouldn’t mind discussions on semantics in biology but I don’t believe this one goes any deeper.
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