cell lineage
Biology
noun
The manner in which the parts of a multicellular organism develop from the blastomeres of the embryo; the line of descent of a cell from a blastomere or other embryonic precursor; a population of cells sharing such a line of descent.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939).
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