Sentences with phrase «producing haploid cells»

Scientists long believed that the fungal pathogen Candida albicans was incapable of producing haploid cells — which contain only one copy of each chromosome, analagous to eggs and sperm — for mating.

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This year, a team led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem finally produced haploid human embryonic stem cells by forcing unfertilized egg cells to divide.

This process involves ploidy changes (1n → 2n → 1n) via self cell — cell fusion or endoreplication, meiosis, and sporulation to produce haploid meiotic progeny.