gamete
noun
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
gametic
-
a word derived from
gamete.
Example Sentences
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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 scheme also assumes either selective fertilization or, what amounts to the same thing, infertility of gametic unions where like sex chromosomes are present.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Nettie Maria Stevens
But the degree of development of a structure whose presence is due to gametic factors may very probably be modified by external stimulation, and the modification may become hereditary.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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 Reginald Crundall Punnett
