GAMETOGENESIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does gametogenesis mean? • GAMETOGENESIS (noun)
The noun GAMETOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
Familiarity information: GAMETOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GAMETOGENESIS (noun)
Meaning:
The development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("gametogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gametogenesis"):
oogenesis (development of ova)
spermatogenesis (development of spermatozoa)
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