gonads

1. The organs in animals that produce sex cells: ovaries in the female, testes in the male.

Example Sentences

“Do we really want to kill more salmon for their gonads?”

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As a postdoctoral scholar, Özpolat was most interested in how worms made new gonads as part of this chain-like reproductive process.

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Valenzuela's group is already at work on creating organoids from turtle gonads, to further investigate the underlying causes of sex determination.

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The tests also found that adult male fish exposed to bifenthrin an cyhalothrin as larvae had smaller gonads than the control group, while the second generation had increased fecundity.

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They are only one ingredient in a toxic stew that is literally hitting us in our collective gonads.

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