spore mother cell
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spore mother cell
a DIPLOID (1) cell in which MEIOSIS occurs to give four HAPLOID (1) spores.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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