Definitions for gamete

gamete gam·ete

Spelling: [gam-eet, guh-meet]
IPA: /ˈgæm it, gəˈmit/

Gamete is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in gamete (aeegmt).

Definitions for gamete

noun

  1. a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.

Origin of gamete

1885-90; New Latin gameta Greek gamet- (stem of gametḗ wife, gamétēs husband), derivative of gameîn to marry

Examples for gamete

What is the relation between gamete and zygote, between zygote and gamete?

The factor for this or that unit-character is either present in the gamete or it is not present.

It is obvious that the chances of R being distributed to a gamete with or without P are equal.

The saving grace is with the gamete, and with the gamete alone.

It is the participation of the gamete in the process that is our criterion of what is and what is not heredity.

The two were mutually exclusive so far as the gamete was concerned.

For on hypothesis every gamete must be pure for one or other of these two characters.

But any individual sex-cell, or gamete, cannot (according to his view) bear both Dominant and Recessive traits.

But the problem of the way in which characters are distributed from gamete to zygote and from zygote to gamete remained as before.

For two series each consisting of four different types of gamete we require a square divided up into 16 parts.

Word Value for gamete
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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