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sex cells

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  1. The sperm and egg of living things. Sex cells have only half the number of chromosomes that other cells (body cells) have. (See meiosis.)


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A breakthrough aspect of the new study is that for the first time the researchers harnessed the clonal sex cells to engineer offspring through a process they call "polyploid genome design."

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

During meiosis II—which is more similar to a mitotic division—the chromatids separate and segregate into four haploid sex cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Doctors can freeze sperm from adult male patients, but boys do not start producing mature sex cells until they reach puberty.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2019

They've harvested sex cells from the living rhinos and have made steps toward in vitro fertilization with southern white rhino surrogates.

From National Geographic • Mar. 2, 2018

In turn the pituitary would become stabilized in the direction of increased secretion, and hand on the component of increased secretion to the sex cells.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.