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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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Gametes : Biological Psychology
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Cells produced by MEIOSIS (see CELL DIVISION), which are HAPLOID in nature, which are combined in sexual reproduction in order to produce one DIPLOID offspring. In mammals, these cells are sperm and eggs. FIONA M....
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Gamete Information
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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: 4,309 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: 11,337 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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