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sperm cell

NOUN
  1. the male reproductive cell; the male gamete
    a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material

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  • The team had already zeroed in on the Jhdm2a enzyme, showing in a 2007 Nature publication that the Jhdm2a gene is highly expressed in mouse testes and plays an important role in spermiogenesis, the final step in the production of a functional sperm cell. Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Expression was more obvious in aleurone cells, the endosperm cells lining the maternal seed coat.
  • At the second stage, when the sperm cell reaches the vitelline envelope, other recognition molecules allow bindin of the correct species to attach the sperm tightly to the egg.
  • Male sperm cells contain virtually no cytoplasm, and are thus lacking in mitochondria.
  • It accumulates in the amyloplasta of the endosperm cells during grain filling.
  • The seminiferous tubules in the testes, which are the origin of the sperm cells, however, will be reduced in diameter and size.
  • When a person is carrying a mutation in an autosomal dominant gene, each egg or sperm cell has a 50 percent chance of containing the nonfunctioning gene copy and a 50 percent chance of containing the normal copy of the gene. Genetics and Alagille Syndrome
  • A sperm cell has no individual identity - a human being cannot develop from a sperm cell, and its genetic information can make a contribution to the identity of a person only in the presence of an egg cell. Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS
  • The most common male infertility factors include: azoospermia (no sperm cells are produced) and oligospermia (few sperm cells are produced).
  • On one hand, angiosperm cells lack centrosomes as microtubule organizing centres and are missing the contractile ring which serves as a tool for cytokinesis in animal cells.
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