germ cell

noun

, Biology.

the sexual reproductive cell at any stage from the primordial cell to the mature gamete.

germ cell

germ cell

One of the diploid cells in the reproductive organs of a multicellular organism that undergo division and are the precursors of haploid gametes, such as a spermatogonium or oogonium.
See gamete

First recorded in 1850–55

“This technical breakthrough…holds enormous potential for germ cell research,” commented Drs.

The line of descent or inheritance, therefore, is from germ-cell to germ-cell, and not from parents.

Such unused products of the germ-cell are also supposed to become located in the generative products.

The vesicles were obviously cells which had arisen within the original germ-cell or ovum.

And the germ-cell may devour any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing its original paternal energy.

Again, the function of this mesothelium apart from the germ-cell is essentially excretory and phagocytic.

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