Content-Type: text/html

# Nucleus

HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences
You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project

Meaning "center", in chemistry and physics, the term used to describe that collection of protons and neutrons in the center of an atom that carry the bulk of the atoms mass and positive charge.

In biology, "nucleus" refers to the membrane-bounded subcellular organelle found in eukaryotes, visible via microscopy, which contains, primarily, the cell's chromosomes.

HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences
You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project
Edit text of this page | View other revisions
Last edited July 27, 2001 8:07 am (diff)
Search: