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gamete
[ gam-eet, guh-meet ]
noun
, Biology.
- a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
gamete
/ ɡəˈmɛtɪk; ˈɡæmiːt; ɡəˈmiːt /
noun
- a haploid germ cell, such as a spermatozoon or ovum, that fuses with another germ cell during fertilization
gamete
/ găm′ēt′ /
- A cell whose nucleus unites with that of another cell to form a new organism. A gamete contains only a single (haploid) set of chromosomes. Animal egg and sperm cells, the nuclei carried in grains of pollen, and egg cells in plant ovules are all gametes.
- Also called germ cell reproductive cell, sex cell
- See Note at mitosis
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Derived Forms
- gaˈmetal, adjective
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Other Words From
- ga·met·ic [g, uh, -, met, -ik], ga·me·tal [g, uh, -, meet, -l], adjective
- ga·meti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamete1
1885–90; < New Latin gameta < Greek gamet- (stem of gametḗ wife, gamétēs husband), derivative of gameîn to marry
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamete1
C19: from New Latin, from Greek gametē wife, from gamos marriage
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Example Sentences
But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.
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Then they emerge in the grandson, by power of a male gamete evoking the inherent male in them.
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The ocyte (progamete) gives rise by division to the ovum or true gamete, the nucleus of which is called the female pronucleus.
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But the problem of the way in which characters are distributed from gamete to zygote and from zygote to gamete remained as before.
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It is obvious that the chances of R being distributed to a gamete with or without P are equal.
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