gamete
/gam-eet, guh-meet/US // ˈgæm it, gəˈmit //UK // (ˈɡæmiːt, ɡəˈmiːt) //
配细胞,配子,配配子,配配细胞
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n.名词 noun
- 1
Biology.
- : a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
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One released most of its gametes five days after the full moon, another seven days after, and the third at nine days and counting.
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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