Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells. They are also referred to as sex cells. Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells, and ...

In all sexually reproducing species this occurs by combining a large gamete, called an ovum — or egg — with a small gamete, called a sperm. Though some hermaphrodite plants and animals produce ...

Mature ova are released from the ovary into the oviduct where they may be fertilised by sperm to form a zygote. In humans, fertilisation happens inside the woman’s body. This is a process called ...

(p. 3) From chapter 2: “The Beginning of Human Development: First Week” First sentence of the Chapter: “Human development begins at fertilization when a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon) unites with ...

whose conception has resulted from the use of a frozen gamete of a deceased descendant of the Grantor and gamete of the Grantor's deceased descendant's surviving spouse and that posthumously ...

Because the "tester" individual makes one known type of gamete, the ratios of phenotypes among the progeny of the cross indicate the type and frequencies of gametes made by the individual with the ...

The female gamete is called an ovum or egg. The plural is ova. Ova are produced from germline cells in the ovaries. Ovaries contain immature ova at various stages of development. Each ova is ...

"You’re either male or female, and it’s absolutely clear you can do it on gamete size. You can do it on chromosomes. To me, as a biologist, it’s distinctly weird people can simply declare ...

One difference is how "open" describes the agreement within adoption families versus the "open donor" agreements of gamete donors and recipient parents. "Open" adoption is usually an adoption in ...

Calcutta High Court clarifies that there is no legal restriction on husbands in using donated gametes for assisted ...