noun. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce a zygote.

noun. A general term for the mature germ-cells, either male (spermatozoön) or female (ovum), which unite to form the zygote.

noun. In biology, a propagative protoplasmic body which unites with a similar or dissimilar body to form a spore, called a zygote, the latter being either a zygospore or an oöspore. Mobile gametes resembling zoöspores are called planogametes or zoögametes.

noun. 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 oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

noun. A reproductive cell (male (sperm) or female (egg)) that has only half the usual number of chromosomes.

noun. a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

"A variation of IVF, called gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) consists of the immediate injection of the ova into the fallopian tube after combination with semen without determining whether they have been successfully fertilized."

meiosis  oocyte  spermatid  syngamy  

gametic  gametically  gametocyte  gametogenesis  gametophyte  

germ cell  reproductive cell  sex cell  

anisogamete  antherozoid  egg  egg cell  isogamete  

Crete  Deet  Delete  Fleet  Grete  

Kristy  backcross  bisexuality  cuto¤  di¤erent  

sex cell