Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells. They are also referred to as sex cells. Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells ...

Gametes contain half as many chromosomes as the other cells in the organism, and each gamete is genetically unique because the DNA of the parent cell is shuffled before the cell divides.

The female gamete is called an ovum or egg. The plural is ova. Ova are produced from germline cells in the ovaries. Ovaries contain immature ova at various stages of development. Each ova is ...

Sperm cells reach the oviducts by swimming up through the vagina and the uterus.

they didn’t work for the panda [cells],” Liu said. “The recipe from the mouse is not necessarily directly applicable to other species, even within mammalian species,” said Pierre Comizzoli, a gamete ...