sperm, a single cell containing half of the father male original genetic composition. by meeting up with the female egg it will fertilize it and start to grow to a full person
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Male (♂) refers to the sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the proc...
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A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμέτης ; translated gamete = wife, gametes = husband) is a cell that fuses with another gamete during fertilization (conception) in organisms that reproduce sexua...
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Since the discovery of the male gamete, numerous techniques have been developed to assist its function in order to allow fertilization in different cases of infertility. ... functional sperm abnormalities impeding the binding to, or penetration of, the female gamete; and the presence of sperm autoantibodies interfering...
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The male gamete, called the spermatozoan, is relatively motile and usually has a flagellum. The female gamete, called the ovum, is nonmotile and relatively large in comparison to the male gamete. When the haploid male and female gametes unite in a process called fertilization, they form what is called a zygote.
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Green Sperm. Identification of Male Gamete Promoters in Arabidopsis1,[w] ... Previously, in an effort to better understand the male contribution to fertilization, we completed a maize (Zea mays) sperm expressed sequence tag project. Here, we used this resource to identify promoters that would direct gene expression in...
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Male Gamete (Mature Spermatozoan) ... NORMAL STAGES OF MALE GAMETOGENESIS ... FEMALE GAMETE...
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Identification of the controlling elements of generative specific genes should provide novel insights into flowering plant male gamete specific gene expression. Additionally these can be used as a novel tools in molecular analyses and experimental manipulation of fertilization in flowering plants.
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Some of the flowering plant histone genes show strictly male gamete-specific expression. However, mechanisms underlying their male gamete-specific expression have not been elucidated so far.
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