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gamete
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gamete (găm`ēt): see reproduction reproduction, capacity of all living systems to give rise to new systems similar to themselves. The term reproduction may refer to this power of self-duplication of a single cell or a multicellular animal or plant organism.
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gamete
a haploid germ cell, such as a spermatozoon or ovum, that fuses with another germ cell during fertilization
gamete [′ga‚mēt]
(biology)
A cell which participates in fertilization and development of a new organism. Also known as germ cell; sex cell.
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Gametic incompatibility and genetic divergence of Pacific and Kumamoto oysters, Crassostrea gigas and C.
Laboratory hybridization between Crassostrea ariakensis and C. sikamea by Xu, Fei; Zhang, Guofan; Liu, Xiao; Zhang, Shoudu; Shi, Bin; Guo, Ximing / Journal of Shellfish Research
1115, 1156 (2008) (noting that Jewish or Asian couples may have medical reasons or other uncontroversial grounds for seeking "access to gametic material from their ethnic group, which is in short supply from sperm banks and egg brokers"); Dov Fox, Genomic Justice: Genetic Testing and Health Insurance in America, 1 ROOSEVELT REV.
Racial classification in assisted reproduction by Fox, Dov / Yale Law Journal
Although these markers were appropriate for identification of hybrids with gray weakfish, they were ineffective for determining conclusively whether the second gametic contribution was made by sand or silver seatrout.
Evolutionary associations between sand seatrout (Cynoscion arenarius) ... by Anderson, Joel D.; McDonald, Dusty L.; Sutton, Glen R.; Karel, William J. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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