gamete

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Many people think sex should be defined by a strict gamete binary in which a person’s sex is determined by whether their body produces or could produce eggs or sperm.

From Scientific American

To assess which corals could more readily handle higher temperatures, the scientists collected coral reproductive cells, known as gametes, from two different coral reef sites in the Florida Keys.

From Science Daily

Finally there is the law of independent assortment, which found that genes with different traits can segregate from each other independently while gametes are being formed.

From Salon

Many naturally apomictic plants instead create gametes through mitosis, with no change in the chromosome count.

From Science Magazine

They assert that men and women are defined by their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide.

From Scientific American