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/het'euh roh geuh met"ik/, adj. Genetics.(of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes. Cf. homogametic.[1905-10; HETERO- + GAMETIC]
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heterogametic — HETEROGAMÉTIC, Ă adj. (despre sex) care dă naştere la heterogameţi. (< fr. hétérogamétique) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
heterogametic — Having sex gametes of contrasting types; human males are h.. SYN: digametic. [hetero + G. gametikos, connubial] * * * het·ero·ga·met·ic gə met ik, mēt adj forming two kinds of gametes of which one determines offspring of one sex and the other… … Medical dictionary
heterogametic — adjective Date: 1910 forming two kinds of gametes of which one produces male offspring and the other female offspring < the human male is heterogametic > • heterogamety noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
heterogametic — adj. describing the sex that produces two different kinds of gamete, which carry different sex chromosomes, and that therefore determines the sex of the offspring. In humans men are the heterogametic sex: the sperm cells carry either an X or a Y… … The new mediacal dictionary
heterogametic — Producing unlike gametes with regard to the sex chromosomes. In mammals, the XY male is heterogametic, and the XX female is homogametic … Glossary of Biotechnology
Heterogametic sex — refers to the sex of a species in which the sex chromosomes are not the same. For example, in humans, males, with an X and a Y sex chromosome, would be referred to as the heterogametic sex, and females having two X sex chromosomes would be… … Wikipedia
heterogametic sex — heterogametic sex. См. гетерогаметный пол. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
heterogametic sex — heterogametinė lytis statusas T sritis augalininkystė apibrėžtis Lytis, kurios individas gamina dviejų tipų gametas. atitikmenys: angl. heterogametic sex rus. гетерогаметный пол … Žemės ūkio augalų selekcijos ir sėklininkystės terminų žodynas
heterogametic — adj. [Gr. heteros, different; gamete, spouse] Pertains to the sexual form that gives rise to two different types of sexual gametes in meiosis; in xy and xo systems this is usually male; digametic; see homogametic … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
heterogametic — adjective a) That produces heterogametes b) That produces different forms of the same gamete e.g. spermatozoa containing either an X or a Y chromosome … Wiktionary
