Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells. They are also referred to as sex cells. Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells ...

Most animals carry out sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction involves the joining of two sex cells (gametes) – the sperm (male gamete) and the egg/ovum (female gamete).

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a public workshop exploring scientific, ethical, and regulatory implications associated with the ...

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The function of the male reproductive system is to produce sperm cells - male gametes - and release them inside a female. The male reproductive system has two testes (singular: testis).

In a sexually reproducing species, males and females are defined by the kind of gametes (reproductive cells) they produce. The individuals who produce lots of small, mobile gametes are called males.

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The Council on Human Reproductive Technology launches a consultation on lifting legal restrictions on the storage period of ...

Although Mendel's principle of independent assortment states that alleles of different genes will segregate independently into gametes, in reality, this is not always the case. Sometimes ...