REPRODUCTIVE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproductive cell mean? 

• REPRODUCTIVE CELL (noun)
  The noun REPRODUCTIVE CELL has 1 sense:

1. a spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation

  Familiarity information: REPRODUCTIVE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRODUCTIVE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

germ cell; reproductive cell; sex cell

Hypernyms ("reproductive cell" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reproductive cell"):

gamete (a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes)

Holonyms ("reproductive cell" is a part of...):

genital system; reproductive system (organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring)

 Context examples 

A gene change in a body's reproductive cell (egg or sperm) that becomes incorporated into the DNA of every cell in the body of the offspring.

(Germline mutation, NCI Dictionary)

A reproductive cell of the body.

(Germ cell, NCI Dictionary)

The germ cells, collectively as distinguished from the somatic cells or soma, are the reproductive cells of the body, specifically, either egg or sperm cells.

(Murine Germ Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The reproductive cells in multicellular organisms.

(Murine Germ Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A mutation in the genomic DNA of reproductive cells (egg or sperm) that is retained during meiosis, mitosis, and cell differentiation.

(Germline Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

These reproductive cells were not merely more plentiful in ABVD patients.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

Germ cells are reproductive cells that develop into sperm in males and eggs in females.

(Childhood Extracranial Germ Cell Tumor, NCI Dictionary)

Sperm cells (male reproductive cells) move from the testicles into the epididymis, where they finish maturing and are stored.

(Epididymis, NCI Dictionary)

In somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists remove the nucleus, which is the organelle that contains the chromosomes, from an unfertilized ovum, or egg cell, and implant the nucleus from a somatic cell, or non-reproductive cell, into that ovum.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)