How to Use gamete in a Sentence

gamete

noun

• There’s a little explosion of light as both dump their gametes in the water.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2018
• Once a group of adults is conditioned, they are transferred to warmer water and made to release their gametes.
  — Julia Rentsch, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• Once adult human cells can be made into gametes, editing the stem cells will be relatively easy.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• Four people can pair up, create two embryos and combine gametes from those embryos to make a baby that has four parents.
  — William Saletan, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• The exact identity of the sperm was random, and the egg waited passively until the Michael Phelps of gametes finally arrived.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
• These stem cells will eventually be converted into gametes, sperm and egg cells.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2019
• The plants are giddily spewing their powdery gametes all over everything.
  — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 21 Sep. 2017
• His lab had successfully nudged the development of stem cells to around week three of that cycle, inching closer to the development of a human gamete.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• Ford says, explaining that the animals procreate by releasing their gametes into the sea and trusting that sperm and eggs will commingle.
  — Degen Pener, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 June 2018
• By flocking together, the sperm group’s momentum cancels out any wayward movements of a lone gamete, collectively giving them a more direct path to the egg.
  — Marcus Woo, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2015
• The parents who have benefited from the generous gift of gamete donation must remember that there is a human being on the other side of the gift with partners, parents, jobs and children of their own.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020
• There, drenched in moonlight, gametes from different colonies began to fuse and form free-swimming larvae, which would eventually settle on the seafloor, bud, and construct new coral citadels—a process now more vital than ever.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• There, drenched in moonlight, gametes from different colonies began to fuse and form free-swimming larvae, which would eventually settle on the seafloor, bud, and construct new coral citadels—a process now more vital than ever.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• To get around that, another group is working on producing artificial gametes—egg and sperm—from preserved skin tissue from 12 white rhinos.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 Aug. 2019
• Clearly, there are strong mechanisms by which Mendel’s law of segregation (that decrees equal access to gametes by allelic pairs) is enforced.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
• A brain coral at Flower Garden Banks released its gametes within two minutes of its reproductive frenzy the previous year.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• In December 2017, Surani announced a crucial milestone concerning the eight-week cycle, after which germ cells begin the process of transforming into gametes.
  — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• But not all gametes are the same; for reasons that still remain somewhat of a mystery, one parent donates a much larger gamete, the egg, while the other donates only essential genetic material in the form of sperm.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2015
• The corals in natural conditions spawned as predicted and expressed many genes only during or just before releasing their gametes.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• Irena discovered a branch of the Institut Marquès in Ireland, a country that permits non-anonymous gamete donation.
  — Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• Embryology, which involves the development of gametes, fertilization and the growth of embryos, is not covered by CLIA.
  — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Telfer notes that in her own work, which relies on natural precursors to human egg and sperm cells, successfully growing mature gametes remains difficult.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
• The chalk bass, however, is capable of producing both male and female gametes (sperm or eggs) simultaneously.
  — Mary K. Hart, National Geographic, 6 July 2016
• The chalk bass, however, is capable of producing both male and female gametes (sperm or eggs) simultaneously.
  — National Geographic, 6 July 2016
• The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only one biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes.
  — Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
• Every tiny grain of this substance contains reproductive material known as male gametes that are used in fertilization of flowers–ultimately producing a seed.
  — Cole Sikes Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 13 Mar. 2023
• Genetically, Mendelian segregation and genetic recombination are going to reshuffle the many alleles which control variation in height from parent to offspring in terms of what the gamete contributes.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2011
• The organization cites parthenogenesis, a process in which the development of a female gamete occurs without fertilization by sperm, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024