host cell - Education 4.0

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host cell

PR: /həʊst sel/

IT: cellula ospite

DEF: a living cell that serves as a shelter and a food source to the foreign organism.

(Definition from “Biology on line“)

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of red blood cell infected with malaria parasites (blue). ***NIAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.>, via Wikimedia

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