Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or by means of gametes or germcells; gametal.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to gametes

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Examples

  • This means that each seed contains not only the embryo that resulted from cross-fertilization (called a gametic embryo), but also several

    4: Multipurpose trees 1996

  • As it is these gametic cells that pass genetic information to the next generation — hence affecting a change in genetic information if a mutation is passed from parent to offspring.

    Evolution 2008

  • It is important to remember that the functional consequence of the mutation is not an indication of evolution itself — evolution merely requires a heritable change in the genes, which is brought about by either neutral or functional mutations in viable gametic cells.

    Evolution 2008

  • All permutations of “Natural Selection”– “survival of the fittest,” “reproductive success,” “mechanisms that contribute to the selection of individuals that reproduce,” “sexual selection,” “gametic selection,” “compatibility selection”–reduce quite readily to “successful reproducers successfully reproduce,” or colloquially, “survivors survive.”

    The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • When a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, it is possible to track the genotypic composition of the population by directly tracking the allelic frequencies (or gametic frequencies).

    Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006

  • In a two-locus model, the gametic (and therefore genotypic) frequencies need not be constant across generations, even in the absence of selection, mutation, migration and drift, unlike in the one-locus case.

    Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006

  • It is an historical fact that the discoverers of the full multi-level selection regime of the t-allele used a gametic model, a diploid model, and a demic model, not a genic one

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • He added that in some of the polyembyronic citrus, some of the embryos are of gametic origin and therefore do not come true.

    28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

  • That is to say that it has been shown that from the moment malaria blood leaves the human body, the malaria parasites deviate from the normal course of development; they leave the red blood corpuscles and assume gametic forms.

    Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Absence of the gametic factor or factors for pigmentation results in albinism, and no amount of exposure to light produces pigmentation in albinos, _e. g.

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

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