Enucleation

/ɪˌnjuː.kli.ˈeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Definition

The process or surgical procedure of removing the nucleus from a cell, or the removal of a central or essential part.

Etymology

Derived from 'enucleate' with the addition of the suffix '-tion,' which creates nouns describing processes or actions. This term became standard in medical and biological terminology.

Kelly Says

Enucleation is the hidden hero of modern genetics—without perfecting this technique in the 1990s, scientists couldn't have created Dolly the sheep or pursued reproductive cloning research.

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