sex cell


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Synonyms for sex cell

a spermatozoon or an ovum

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Analyzing the racialized practices of classifying and commodifying sex cells and their providers, the next section shows how white futurities are created in Mexico's IVF laboratories.
To produce fertile offspring, ,chromosomes from both parents must pair off evenly during meiosis, a process of cell division that produces sex cells. Scientists believe that for most hybrid species, its parents may each have a different number of chromosomes.
STEP 3: As if it had been fertilized (fused) by a sperm (male sex cell), egg begins to grow and divide to form an embryo.
According to Russian Federal law (Article 55) 'On the basics of protection of the health of citizens in the Russian Federation' surrogacy is carrying and giving birth to a child within the contract, which is signed by surrogate mother and biological parents who gave their own sex cells. Under Russian Family Code neither spouses who gave a permission for the implantation of embryo to another woman nor a surrogate mother have a right to dispute a motherhood and fatherhood, referring to the circumstances linked to surrogate motherhood, after a registration of parents in the register book of births.
The idea is to use the preserved cells to generate stem cells and sex cells and then clone him.
Leptin hormone stimulate increasing of androgenic hormones secretion such as testosterone and this hormone proliferate sex cells [20].
Many coral species release their buoyant bundles of sex cells during highly synchronized mass spawnings.
While originally accepted, the theory was eventually thrown out because science revealed that animals pass along DNA through their gamete or sex cells, which are not affected by the environment.
Experts already know that testicular cancer originates from the abnormal development of germ cells (cells that go on to become sex cells) in foetuses.
Pollen grains contain male sex cells. The stigma and ovary form the female part of the flower." 3 Religion and philosophy both attempt to explain the interlocking framework of existence.
This is the type of sex practiced by animals, fungi, and plants, and involves specialized sex cells (gametes) that possess only half the number of chromosomes as other body cells (somatic cells).
A bid to ban scientists from creating "true" animal-human hybrid embryos using sex cells was later rejected by 223 votes to 286.
When MPs were allowed to vote according to their consciences, they rejected, by 286 to 223, a ban on the use of so-called "true hybrids" using the sex cells of a human and an animal.