Example sentences for: gametes

How can you use “gametes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This might be because large gametes, yielding well-funded zygotes, are likely to be more strongly selected if the resulting offspring needs to grow into a large and complex organism.

  • We dissected ripe gametes from the ovaries of gravid females and fertilized them in glass dishes by mixing them with minced testes, a procedure similar to that commonly used to fertilize frog eggs in the lab [ 25].

  • Although numerous hypotheses have been proposed to describe the etiology of aneuploidy in human gametes, the only steadfast association remains maternal age [ 1 2 ] . Besides this association, very little information is available about the numerous potential mechanisms that may disrupt normal chromosome segregation in oocytes.

  • Individuals can make more smaller gametes, thus increasing their potential number of offspring, or they can make fewer bigger gametes, thus giving their offspring a better start in life by providing them with more resources.

  • Some have argued that cytoplasmic policing might also be a selective force for different-sized gametes.


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