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Synonyms for gametes


Grammar : Noun
Spell : gam-eet, guh-meet
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgæm it, gəˈmit



Définition of gametes

Origin :
  • "sexual protoplasmic body," 1880, coined 1878 by German cytologist Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912), the widespread attribution to Mendel being apparently erroneous; from Greek gamete "a wife," gametes "a husband," from gamein "to take to wife, to marry," from PIE root *gem(e)- "to marry" (cf. Greek gambros "son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law;" Sanskrit jamih "brother, sister," jama daughter-in-law;" Avestan zama-tar "son-in-law;" Latin gener "son-in-law"). Cf. also -gamy. The seventh month of the ancient Attic calendar (corresponding to late January and early February) was Gamelion, "Month of Marriages."
  • As in ovum : noun female reproductive cell
Example sentences :
  • Half of its gametes, therefore, will contain R and the other half will be without it (r).
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • The result of the meeting of these two series of gametes is given in Fig. 24.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • They are not gametes but retain the double structure of the maternal cells.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • IX, X, show the formation of the zygote by fusion of the nuclei of the gametes.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 » by Various
  • Is sex determined at the act of conjugation of the two gametes?
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 » by Various
  • What, it may be asked, is the relation of these facts to the general principle that inheritance is through the gametes?
  • Extract from : « Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl » by Charles Benedict Davenport
  • The gametes show every gradation from complete similarity (isogamy) to a condition like that of Cutleria.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
  • Hence the inference that there is such a splitting of the gametes in the sexual act seems a legitimate one.
  • Extract from : « The Making of Species » by Douglas Dewar
  • Further, the segregation of the gametes does not appear to be so complete as the above hypothesis requires it to be.
  • Extract from : « The Making of Species » by Douglas Dewar
  • This problem reduces itself simply to that of the method whereby the gametes transmit heliotropism to the larvae or to the adult.
  • Extract from : « Darwin and Modern Science » by A.C. Seward and Others

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