Synonyms for gamete


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


Définition of gamete

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 :
  • The two were mutually exclusive so far as the gamete was concerned.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • For on hypothesis every gamete must be pure for one or other of these two characters.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • The factor for this or that unit-character is either present in the gamete or it is not present.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • It is the participation of the gamete in the process that is our criterion of what is and what is not heredity.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • The saving grace is with the gamete, and with the gamete alone.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.
  • Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
  • What is the relation between gamete and zygote, between zygote and gamete?
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • But the problem of the way in which characters are distributed from gamete to zygote and from zygote to gamete remained as before.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • It is obvious that the chances of R being distributed to a gamete with or without P are equal.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • For two series each consisting of four different types of gamete we require a square divided up into 16 parts.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett

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