reproductive cell
Americannoun
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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.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
Once they're in the lungs, those spores take on a wholly different form, each morphing into a reproductive cell in which new spores multiply.
From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2023
These cells went through meiosis, an adaption of mitosis, which reduced the number of chromosomes in each reproductive cell by half, while increasing the number of cells through cell division.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Since the discovery in 1827 of the ovule or female reproductive cell, there can be no question of the complete physiological equivalence and analogy between the essential organs of reproduction in the two sexes.
From The Education of American Girls by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
An egg; the reproductive cell of an animal or vegetable.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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