reproductive cell
Americannoun
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This mirrors the division of labor in the human body, where reproductive cells generate offspring and other cells perform daily biological tasks.
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While SAS1B is found inside female reproductive cells called oocytes, it is also found on the surface of many different solid cancer cells, Slingluff's new research verifies.
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Asexual replication in humans is what causes the symptoms of malaria, but to transmit, parasites have to develop and become either a male or female reproductive cell, known as a gametocyte.
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This variation is attributed to the process of meiosis, which generates reproductive cells like sperm and eggs in animals or pollen and ovules in plants.
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We have two copies of each chromosome in every cell in our bodies except in our reproductive cells.
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