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Summary: The Importance Of Cell Migration

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Migration of cells in simple words can be defined as one of the most essential life processes that involves the translation or transmission of cells from desired tissue or an organ to its target destination. It is a ubiquitous process that is observed almost in every organism, ranging from unicellular organisms like amoeba, to complex multicellular organisms upto mammals. also it is environment dependent, meaning that it can take place in non- living medium like soil, in vitro culture or in complex organisms. Importance of cell migration depends upon its occurrence whether in tissue, organs or an organism it is taking place in and desired results of the migration. For example in lower organisms its main role is mating and search of food, …show more content…

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