Sentences with phrase «developing gametes»
«The strategy that wtf selfish genes employ is to poison all the developing gametes, but then keep the antidote for themselves,» says Zanders, a Stowers assistant investigator.
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The first page of Larsen's Human Embryology states that, `... [W] e begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes [sperm and egg], which will unite at fertilisation to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual».
So when something as complex as the ability to produce sex gametes is lost, it's likely never to be developed again.
Despite this progress, however, women who lack ovaries altogether and men whose testicles have failed to develop or have been removed must still use donor gametes if they wish to have a child, which means that the child will not carry any of their genes.
SCNT is a technique wherein the nucleus from a somatic cell (an adult cell that is not a sperm or egg, i.e. not the gametes) is implanted into an enucleated egg cell which can then be implanted into, and develop in, a surrogate mother, and potentially become an adult organism.
The aim of this process is to produce a developing embryo in which each cell (including those that will develop into gametes in the future) carries the newly inserted gene as part of its genetic make - up.