gamete
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
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Origin of gamete
1Other words from gamete
- ga·met·ic [guh-met-ik], /gəˈmɛt ɪk/, ga·me·tal [guh-meet-l], /gəˈmit l/, adjective
- ga·met·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use gamete in a sentence
The shipping of gametes and embryos around the world is a growing part of a booming global fertility sector.
The Download: frozen egg transportation, and Roblox’s expressive avatars | Rhiannon Williams | September 12, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewMade possible by advances in cryogenics and cold-chain technology, the shipping of gametes and embryos around the world is a growing part of a booming global fertility sector.
I took an international trip with my frozen eggs to learn about the fertility industry | Anna Louie Sussman | September 12, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewHuman artificial gametes are set to become a scientific reality in the coming years.
Inside the race to make human sex cells in the lab | Jessica Hamzelou | August 23, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewLastly, regulations could ensure that donors and parents are fully informed about the social and legal implications of donor conception, including that other people may be conceived with the same donor’s gametes.
The law would ensure that donor-conceived people can learn the identity of the donor upon reaching adulthood and sets limits on the number of families to whom any one particular donor can provide their gametes.
But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyThen they emerge in the grandson, by power of a male gamete evoking the inherent male in them.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyThe ocyte (progamete) gives rise by division to the ovum or true gamete, the nucleus of which is called the female pronucleus.
But the problem of the way in which characters are distributed from gamete to zygote and from zygote to gamete remained as before.
Mendelism | Reginald Crundall PunnettIt is obvious that the chances of R being distributed to a gamete with or without P are equal.
Mendelism | Reginald Crundall Punnett
British Dictionary definitions for gamete
/ (ˈɡæmiːt, ɡəˈmiːt) /
a haploid germ cell, such as a spermatozoon or ovum, that fuses with another germ cell during fertilization
Origin of gamete
1Derived forms of gamete
- gametal or gametic (ɡəˈmɛtɪk), adjective
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Scientific definitions for gamete
[ găm′ēt′ ]
A cell whose nucleus unites with that of another cell to form a new organism. A gamete contains only a single (haploid) set of chromosomes. Animal egg and sperm cells, the nuclei carried in grains of pollen, and egg cells in plant ovules are all gametes. Also called germ cell reproductive cell, sex cell See Note at mitosis.
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Cultural definitions for gamete
A reproductive cell having a single set of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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