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Gamete

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A gamete is a reproductive biological cell that can fuse with another gamete during fertilization. In the ordinary diploid inheritance model, a haploid gamete carries one copy at each genetic locus.
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    • Ovum Gamete
    • Sperm Gamete

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Gamete
An ovum is a female gamete.

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Gamete
A male gamete.

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  • Gametophyte
  • Genetic linkage
  • Genetic map
  • Genetic recombination
  • Hardy-Weinberg principle
  • Independent assortment
  • Linkage-disequilibrium decay under recombination
  • Meiosis
  • Mendelian segregation
  • Oogenesis
  • Ovum
  • Pollen
  • Pollen tube germination assay
  • Pollination
  • Recombination fraction
  • Reproductive isolation
  • Sperm
  • Test cross
  • Zygote

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