Gamete - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gameteGamete
A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual In Bot gamete designates esp the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation forming a zygospore The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts sperm male and egg female their union is called fertilization and the resulting zygote an ooumlspore In Zooumll gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms...
fertilized
united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo of female gametes...
cross fertilisation
fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species...
gametangium
A cell or organ in which gametes develop...
gametocyte
An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis...
Gametophyte
In the alternation of generations in plants that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes In the lower plants as the algaelig the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body in mosses it is the so called moss plant in ferns it is reduced to a small early perishing body and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary...
Planogamete
One of the motile ciliated gametes or zooumlgametes found in isogamous plants as many green algaelig Chlorophyceaelig...
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