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The gametic chromosomes combine during fertilization to produce offspring with the same chromosome number as their parents.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It is a common misnomer to refer to a woman’s gametic cell as an egg or ovum, but this is impossible.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The four terms of the gametic series are first written horizontally across the four sets of four squares, so that the series is repeated four times.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

All attempts to explain adaptation by gametogenic mutations, or changes in gametic factors or 'genes,' have completely failed, as Bateson himself has admitted.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

The abnormalities are undoubtedly mutations of gametic origin.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.