reproductive cell

noun

1. gamete.

reproductive cell

/ rē′prə-dŭk′tĭv /

1. See gamete

Example Sentences

While SAS1B is found inside female reproductive cells called oocytes, it is also found on the surface of many different solid cancer cells, Slingluff's new research verifies.

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Asexual replication in humans is what causes the symptoms of malaria, but to transmit, parasites have to develop and become either a male or female reproductive cell, known as a gametocyte.

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This variation is attributed to the process of meiosis, which generates reproductive cells like sperm and eggs in animals or pollen and ovules in plants.

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We have two copies of each chromosome in every cell in our bodies except in our reproductive cells.

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"To understand how chromosomes separate into reproductive cells correctly, we are really interested in what happens right before that when the synaptonemal complex forms between them."

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