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gamete

[ gam-eet, guh-meet ]

noun

, Biology.
  1. a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.


gamete

/ ɡəˈmiːt; ˈɡæmiːt; ɡəˈmɛtɪk /

noun

  1. a haploid germ cell, such as a spermatozoon or ovum, that fuses with another germ cell during fertilization


gamete

/ gămēt′ /

  1. 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.
  2. Also called germ cell reproductive cell, sex cell
  3. See Note at mitosis


gamete

  1. A reproductive cell having a single set of chromosomes , especially a mature sperm or egg .


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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·meti·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

The shipping of gametes and embryos around the world is a growing part of a booming global fertility sector.

Made possible by advances in cryogenics and cold-chain technology, the shipping of gametes and embryos around the world is a growing part of a booming global fertility sector.

Human artificial gametes are set to become a scientific reality in the coming years.

Lastly, regulations could ensure that donors and parents are fully informed about the social and legal implications of donor conception, including that other people may be conceived with the same donor’s gametes.

The law would ensure that donor-conceived people can learn the identity of the donor upon reaching adulthood and sets limits on the number of families to whom any one particular donor can provide their gametes.

But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.

Then they emerge in the grandson, by power of a male gamete evoking the inherent male in them.

The ocyte (progamete) gives rise by division to the ovum or true gamete, the nucleus of which is called the female pronucleus.

But the problem of the way in which characters are distributed from gamete to zygote and from zygote to gamete remained as before.

It is obvious that the chances of R being distributed to a gamete with or without P are equal.

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