gametes
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gamete (ˈɡæmiːt, ɡəˈmiːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a haploid germ cell, such as a spermatozoon or ovum, that fuses with another germ cell during fertilization | |
| [C19: from New Latin, from Greek gametē wife, from gamos marriage] | |
| ga'metal | |
| —adj | |
| gametic | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
gamete
"sexual protoplasmic body," 1886, name introduced in Mod.L. by Austrian biologist Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), from Gk. gamete "a wife," gametes "a husband," from gamein "to take to wife, to marry," from PIE base *gem(e)- "to marry" (cf. Gk. gambros "son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law;" Skt. jamih
"brother, sister," jama daughter-in-law;" Avestan zama-tar "son-in-law;" L. gener "son-in-law"). This also is the source of the suffix in monogamy, etc. The seventh month of the ancient Attic calendar (corresponding to late January and early February) was Gamelion, "Month of Marriages."
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Medical Dictionary
gamete gam·ete (gām'ēt', gə-mēt')
n.
A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce a fertilized egg.
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Science Dictionary
gamete  (gām'ēt') Pronunciation Key
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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Cultural Dictionary
gamete definition
A reproductive cell having a single set of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg.
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Example sentences
All they had to do was release their gametes into the water.
Instead of making gametes with only one copy of each chromosome, they created ones with two or more, a state called polyploidy.
Early plants, for example, still needed to let their gametes swim to each other in standing water.
The first is meiosis, in which the haploid gametes are generated from diploid precursors.
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