Principles of Biology
Principles of Biology
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781259875120
Author: Robert Brooker, Eric P. Widmaier Dr., Linda Graham Dr. Ph.D., Peter Stiling Dr. Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell in vertebrate immune system. The lymphocytes arise from mitosis of stem cells in bone marrow. Some of these lymphocytes migrate to thymus which becomes T cells and cirucaltes in the blood.

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