(gm't', g-mt') Pronunciation Key n. A reproductive cadre having the haploid turn of chromosomes, unusually a cured spermatozoan or egg dominant of fusing with a gamete of the antonym sex to acquiring the fertilized egg. [new Latin gameta, from Hellene gamet, wife and gamets, maintain , from gamein, to marry , from gamos, matrimony ; see gem- in Aryan roots.] gamet'ic (-mt'k) adj. , gamet'ically adv. The American Inheritance Lexicon of the English Language, One-fourth Editioncopyright 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Refer That Writer gamete "sexual protoplasmic body," 1886, mention introduced in Mod.l. by Austrian biologist Gregor Mendel (1822-84), from Gk. gamete "a wife," gametes "a husband," from gamein "to getting to wife, to marry," from PIE alkali *gem(e)- "to marry" (cf. Gk. gambros "son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law;" Skt. jamih "brother, sister," jama daughter-in-law;" Zend zama-tar "son-in-law;" L. gener "son-in-law"). That more is the generator of the suffix in monogamy, etc. The one-seventh epoch of the ancient Bonce calendar (corresponding to postponed Jan and early February) was Gamelion, "month of Marriages." Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001 Douglas Harpist Advertisement That Generator gamete noun a ripened internal reproductive cadre having a scoop set of unpaired chromosomes Wordnet 3.0, 2006 by Princeton University. Refer That Generator gamete A reproductive cadre having a scoop set of chromosomes, specifically a aged spermatozoan or egg. The American Inheritance New Vocabulary of Cultural Literacy, Tierce Editioncopyright 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Touch That Writer gamete gamete (gm't', g-mt') Gamete Gam"ete\ (g[a^]m"[=e]t; g[.a]*m[=e]t"; the latter particularly in compounds), n. [gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.] (biol.) A internal cadre or bug cell; a conjugating cadre which unites with another of lovingness or particular geek to build a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the synonymous sex cells of the glare thallophytes which amalgamation by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, spermatozoan (male) and egg (female); their concretion is alarmed fertilization, and the resulting zygote an o["o]spore. In Zo["o]l. |
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(gm't') Pronunciation Key A cadre whose karyon unites with this of another cadre to shape a new organism. A gamete contains hermit a exclusive (haploid) set of chromosomes. Fauna egg and spermatozoon cells, the nuclei carried in grains of pollen, and egg cells in implant ovules are all gametes. Conjointly whooped bug cadre , reproductive cell, sex cadre . See Annotation at mitosis. The American Inheritance Skill Dictionarycopyright 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Advertizing That Generator gamete
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