Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation or production of gametes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, genesis or origin from gametes, that is, from a sperm- and an egg-cell. Also
gametogeny .
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- noun cytology The process by which
gametes are produced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
Etymologies
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Examples
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In both females and males, androgens but also estrogens play an important role in gametogenesis.
The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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The whiteness was a genomic "error" during the process gametogenesis or recombination, and only later turned out to be pertinent to environmental adaptation.
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Considering data demonstrating extensive human exposure, we think that current environmental levels of Cd could be deleterious to early gametogenesis.
Dan Agin: Cadmium Pollution Kills Human Fetal Sex Organ Cells 2009
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We had to backtrack a bit to talk about gametogenesis and fertilization, but I didn't mind.
Late night variety pak Douglas Hoffman 2006
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We had to backtrack a bit to talk about gametogenesis and fertilization, but I didn't mind.
Archive 2006-01-01 Douglas Hoffman 2006
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The law of segregation is explained by the fact that during gametogenesis, each gamete (sex cell) receives only one of each chromosome pair from its parent organism.
Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006
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Many of these researches were closely connected with the study of the events of gametogenesis and fertilization.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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A recessive character is the absence of some positive character, and if in the cell-divisions of gametogenesis the factor for the positive character passes wholly into one cell, the other will be without it, will not 'carry' that factor.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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AGO9 lead to the differentiation of multiple gametic cells that are able to initiate gametogenesis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Vianey Olmedo-Monfil 2010
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In the ovules of most sexual flowering plants female gametogenesis is initiated from a single surviving gametic cell, the functional megaspore, formed after meiosis of the somatically derived megaspore mother cell (MMC) 1, 2.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Vianey Olmedo-Monfil 2010
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