GAMETOGENESIS

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in gonad development, female gametogenesis, and hormone binding and signaling.

(FSHR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Any type of homology-dependent DNA strand exchange occuring during gametogenesis and involving synapsis of parental homologs, strand breakage and exchange of segments to yield unique combinations of genes in the gamete.

(Meiotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)