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gamete
(gam´ēt)
one of two haploid reproductive cells, male (spermatozoon) and female (oocyte), whose union is necessary in sexual reproduction to initiate the development of a new individual.
the malarial parasite in its sexual form in the stomach of a mosquito; it may be either male (microgamete) or female (macrogamete). The macrogamete is fertilized by the microgamete to develop into an ookinete. adj., gamet´ic., adj.

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