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*’ancient greek’* –>
γαμετή
gamete
*’gamein’ –> “to marry”*
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*a gamete is a ‘haploid cell’ that fuses with another ‘haploid cell’ during ‘fertilization’ (aka ‘conception’) in ‘organisms’ that ‘sexually reproduce’*
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(in ‘species’ that produce 2 ‘morphologically distinct’ types of ‘gametes’, and in which each individual produces only 1 type, a ‘female’ is any individual that produces the larger type of “gamete”—called an ‘ovum’ (or ‘egg’)—and a ‘male’ produces the smaller ‘tadpole-like’ type—called a ‘sperm’)
(this is an example of anisogamy or heterogamy, the condition in which females and males produce gametes of different sizes (this is the case in humans; the human ovum has approximately 100,000 times the volume of a single human sperm cell)
(in contrast, isogamy is the state of gametes from both sexes being the same size and shape, and given arbitrary designators for ‘mating type’)
(the name ‘gamete’ was introduced by the austrian biologist ‘gregor mendel’)
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(‘gametes’ carry half the ‘genetic information’ of an individual, one ploidy of each type, and are created through ‘meiosis’)
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