spermatogonium
noun
one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
spermatogonia
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pluralof spermatogonium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The experiment did not work in males, likely because spermatogonia go through normal mitotic cell division before meiosis, stymying HDR.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 10, 2018
The process that begins with spermatogonia and concludes with the production of sperm is called spermatogenesis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
One production cycle, from spermatogonia through formed sperm, takes approximately 64 days.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
At the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, biologist Ralph Brinster has been working for several years with sperm stem cells, or spermatogonia, the cells deep within the testes that produce sperm.
From Time Magazine Archive
One variety of these cells, the spermatogonia, undergo an increase of size at puberty, and from these spermatogonia, after passing through several intermediate transitional stages, the spermatozoa are formed.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
