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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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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Examples

  • 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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