Sentences with phrase «haploid gametes»

Our vision is to understand the mechanisms that distinguish meiosis from mitosis and enable generation of haploid gametes.

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During meiosis, the genome of a diploid germ cell, which is composed of long segments of DNA packaged into chromosomes, undergoes DNA replication followed by two rounds of division, resulting in haploid cells called gametes.

spermatozoa), and more commonly known as a sperm cell, is the haploid cell that is the male gamete.

In meiosis, which is required in sexual reproduction, one diploid cell (having two instances of each chromosome, one from each parent) undergoes recombination of each pair of parental chromosomes, and then two stages of cell division, resulting in four haploid cells (gametes).

gamete: Haploid reproductive cells that combine at fertilization to form the zygote, called sperm (or pollen) in males and eggs in females.