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Gamete Summary
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A gamete is a specialized reproductive cell. The cells usually have one half as many chromosomes in their nuclei as the majority of body cells, which are known as somatic cells. All sexually-reproducing plants, animals, and microbes produce gametes...
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Gamete Summary
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A gamete is a sexual reproductive cell such as a sperm or an egg that must fuse with another gamete to produce a zygote, and eventually, a new organism. Gametes are typically haploid (1N), containing only half the number of the chromosomes needed to...
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A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετης; translated gamete = wife, gametes = husband) is a cell that fuses with another gamete during fertilization (conception) in organisms that reproduce sexually. In species which produce two morphologically...


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Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mirror gametes donation
12/01/2007: 4,308 words, approx. 14 pages
Abstract Candidate recipients of donor gametes have a moral obligation to make a contribution to the system from which they benefit by reciprocating. They can do this as a couple when the partner of the person who has no usable gametes donates and...
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Genetics
Imprinting Capacity of Gamete Lineages in Caenorhabditis elegans
08/01/2005: 11,336 words, approx. 38 pages
ABSTRACT We have observed a gamete-of-origin imprinting effect in C. elegans using a set of GFP reporter transgenes. From a single progenitor line carrying an extrachromosomal unc-54::gfp transgene array, we generated three independent autosomal integrations of the unc-54::gfp transgene. The progenitor line, two...
 


 

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