nucleus

     

Nucleus may refer to:

Trivia about nucleus

  • In an animal cell, it's where the chromosomes are contained
  • The body of a comet is called this, just like the center of an atom
  • Ernest Rutherford, the first to split this central part of the atom, doubted you could get power by doing so
  • Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion
  • 99.95% of the mass of an atom is in this part
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a video screen.) In the magnified onion skin cells we're looking at, each little dot represents this
  • This tiny center region of an atom consists of protons & neutrons
  • It's where you'll find the protons in an atom
  • More than 99.9% of an atom's mass is contained within this
  • In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom
  • Cell division begins in this part of the cell, either by mitosis or by meiosis
  • Your cells are eukaryotic, from the Greek for "nut", meaning they have a true one of these

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