gamete

• n. [生物学的]配偶子、仲間.

PIE *gemeの「結婚する」「結合する」が語源で、生物学用語ではbigamy、conjugal、joinと同じ。

gamete (n.)

"sexual protoplasmic body," 1880, coined 1878 by German cytologist Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912), the widespread attribution of the word's coinage to Mendel being apparently erroneous. From Greek gamete "a wife," gametes "a husband," from gamein "to take to wife, to marry," from PIE root *gem(e)- "to marry" (cognates: Greek gambros "son-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law;" Sanskrit jamih "brother, sister," jama daughter-in-law;" Avestan zama-tar "son-in-law;" Latin gener "son-in-law"). See also -gamy. The seventh month of the ancient Attic calendar (corresponding to late January and early February) was Gamelion, "Month of Marriages." Related: Gametal.

1. The male gamete could not unite with the female.

雄配偶子は雌配偶子と結合できない.

2.The other male gamete fuses with the secondary nucleus，forming the primary endosperm nucleus.

もう1つの雄配偶子と二次核が結合して初期胚乳核を形成する。

3.Gametes may develop without fertilization，or meiosis may substantially precede gamete formation.

配偶子は受精しなくても発育する可能性があり、減数分裂が配偶子形成より先であれば、配偶子も発育する可能性がある。

4.The male gamete of algae，some gymnosperms，and the non-seed-bearing plants.

藻類、一部の裸体植物と種子形成されていない植物中の雄の配偶子.

5.The effect of gamete treatment was similiar to that of zygote treatment.

配偶子処理はキメラを除去し、その誘起効果は合成子処理に近い。