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gamete

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n. (context cytology English) A reproductive cell (male (sperm) or female (egg)) that has only half the usual number of chromosomes.

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A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce . In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, and ...

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When an animal is ready to reproduce, its germ-cellsor reproductive cellseach divide into two daughter cells called gametes, each daughter cell possessing one-half the chromosomes of the parent cell, every chromosome in each gamete corresponding to an opposite number chromosome in the other.

He may receive the sextuple super-gamete from the tkan and transmit the original single gamete to the guur, he may be between the flin and blap, the blap and srob, whatever is required.

The germ-cell divides into seven gametes, six of them with cilia and the seventh secreted either inside or outside the Plookh, depending on the sex.

What counts are mutations in the gametes, the eggs and sperm cells, which are the agents of sexual reproduction.

When Soli did not return from his journey and it seemed he would never return, she used the gametes to fertilize one of her eggs and had the egg implanted in her womb.

With another aspect of her attention, she continued to discuss with Deneb the modifications they would need to make to the extracted gametes.

Right now we are concentrating on cryopreservation techniques for both embryos and gametes.

Since all four phenotypes of the back-cross progeny contain at least one each of both recessive genes or one each of both dominant genes, the back-cross phenotype is a direct representation of the four possible gametes produced by the F1 hybrid.

We might search your germ plasm throughout your entire fertile period and never come across two gametes that could be combined in this combination.

The generative cell divides into two gametes (sex cells) as it travels the length of the pollen tube.

It seems obvious that there was a component of genotypic variability in our previous female donor that fought the dominance of paramount traits present in Marc's gametes.

If, in a given small constellation of male gametes, enough members are examined to determine that they all stem from the same parent cell, then we may examine in minute detail the group producing the sex we do not want.

The polar body is a pseudo egg, containing a chromosome pattern complementary to that of the true gamete, but it is sterile.

Seven years ago you got me shunted off into the minor area of the project's effect on female gametes -- which nobody cared about because it was already clear there was no way around sterility as a side effect.

Since the male germ-cellif I remember rightlyhas only twenty-three identical pairs of chromosomes and an additional unmatched pair called the X-Y chromosome, it divides into two male gametes of twenty-four chromosomes each, of which only twenty-three have a twin in each gamete.