Look up: Gamete


  1. gamete
    Reproductive cells which fuse to form a zygote. Gametes are haploid, and may be differentiated into egg and sperm.
    Found op http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary_6.html

  2. Gamete
    A haploid sex cell, egg or sperm, that contains a single copy of each chromosome.
    Found op http://filebox.vt.edu/cals/cses/chagedor/glossary.html

  3. gamete
    A haploid cell or nucleus involved in sexual reproduction, during which two gametes fuse to form a zygote.
    Found op http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary/Defs_G.htm

  4. Gamete
    A reproductive cell or germ cell (in plants the ova and pollen grains), usually haploid in chromosome number, and capable of uniting with another gamete of the opposite sex to form a new plant or animal.
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  5. gamete
    [n] - a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
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  6. Gamete
    [pronounce: gam-meet] Scientific word for sex cell.
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  7. Gamete
    A fertile reproductive cell.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20637

  8. gamete
    Reproductive cell (either sperm or egg) containing a haploid set of chromosomes.
    Found op http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/glossaryg.html

  9. Gamete
    Gamete: The sperm or the egg. Each human gamete normally has 23 chromosomes, the haploid number of chromosomes, half the number of chromosomes contained in most types of cells in the body.
    Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=3540

  10. Gamete
    The sperm or unfertilised egg of animals that transmit the parental genetic information to offspring. In plants, functionally equivalent structures are found in pollen and ovules.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20945

  11. Gamete
    A reproductive cell (haploid) which unites with another in fertilization to produce a zygote from which a new individual (genet) arises.
    Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryG.html

  12. gamete
    Specialized haploid cell produced by meiosis and involved in sexual reproduction. Male gametes are usually small and motile (spermatozoa), whereas female gametes (oocytes) are larger and non-motile.
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  1. Gamete
    Gam'ete (găm'ēt; gȧ*mēt'; the latter usually in compounds ) noun [ Greek gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, from gamei^n to marry.] (Biol.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugatin...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/7

  2. gamete
    <biology, genetics> Specialised haploid cells produced by meiosis and involved in sexual reproduction. ... Male gametes are usually small and motile (spermatozoa), whereas female gametes (oocytes) are larger and nonmotile. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?gamete

  3. gamete
    noun a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gamete

  4. gamete
    (gam´ēt) one of two haploid reproductive cells, male (spermatozoon) and female (oocyte), whose union is necessary in sexual reproduction to initiate the development of a new individual. the malarial parasite in its sexual form in the stomach of a mosquito; it may be either male (microgamete) o...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  5. Gamete
    • (n.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are...
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  6. gamete
    sex, or reproductive, cell containing only one set of dissimilar chromosomes, or half of the genetic material necessary to form a complete organism ... [23 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/6

  7. Gamete
    A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμέτης gametes "husband" / γαμετή gamete "wife") is a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that reproduce sexually. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, and in which each individ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamete

  8. Gamete
    A haploid reproductive cell.
    Found op http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeoglos/g.html

  9. gamete
    Mature male or female reproductive cell (sperm or ovum) with a haploid set of chromosomes (23 for humans).
    Found op http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/glossary/genetics.html

  10. Gamete
    Mature male or female reproductive cell (sperm or ovum) with a haploid set of chromosomes (23 for humans).
    Found op http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/glossary/glossary.shtml

  11. gamete
    A mature male or female germ cell usually possessing a haploid (unpaired) set of chromosomes, and capable of initiating formation of a new diploid individual, or zygote, by fusion with a gamete of the opposite sex; this process is called fertilization. The gametes of some primitive organisms are i.....
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  12. Gamete
    An individual's reproductive cell that is capable of fusing with another reproductive cell to form a zygote. In males, the sperm is the sex cell and the egg is the sex cell in females.
    Found op http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/G/1

  13. gamete
    gamete (găm'ēt) : see reproduction.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0913686.html

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