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gamete

[gam-eet, guh-meet] / ˈgæm it, gəˈmit /
NOUN
ovum
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Helen Gibson, founder of Surrogacy Concern, a UK group which campaigns on issues relating to surrogacy and gamete donation said the organisation did not support "any payment for gametes".

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

But as they age, hermaphrodites continue producing eggs and cease producing sperm, leaving them with gametes they cannot self-fertilize.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

And what of the substantial number of people who do not produce or carry gametes?

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2023

Finally there is the law of independent assortment, which found that genes with different traits can segregate from each other independently while gametes are being formed.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

He or she will not have the determiner represented in any of the gametes, and can not, of course, transmit a trait represented by the determiner.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.




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