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Meanings of sex cell in inglés
A spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation.
Usage of sex cell in inglés
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When size is irrelevant, other features of a sex cell determine its sex.
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Imagine the world from a sex cell's point of view.
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A sex cell carries one complete set of your genes.
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I mean a sex cell of a different sex.
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Its mission is threefold: to find, recognize, and fuse with a suitable sex cell from the same species.
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And imagine that you're in a population that has zero sexes -everysex cell can fuse with every other.
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If you encounter a sex cell from the same parent, you can go ahead and fuse with it.
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What's a sex cell?
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When a sex cell of yours fuses with a regular sex cell, the resulting cell, known as a zygote, will be smaller than usual.
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By contrast, plants don't just rely on specialist sex cells to reproduce.
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The anatomical difference between the sex cells of men and women is extreme.
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This union of the male and female sex cells is called "fertilization."
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But what force can favor making fewer, larger sex cells?
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Most of us are sterile because we even form antibodies to our own sex cells.
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Or, to be more precise, sexes define which sex cells can fuse with each other.
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Among animals, then, there are two types of sex cells, big (eggs) and small (sperm).
Translations for sex cell
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