Gamete vs. Gametophyte

Gametenoun

(cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

Gametenoun

A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oöspore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

Gametenoun

a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

Gametenoun

a mature haploid male or female germ cell which is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.

Gamete

A gamete (/ˈɡæmiːt/; from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein ) is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually. Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells, also referred to as sex cells.

Gametophytenoun

(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.

Gametophytenoun

In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.

Gametophytenoun

the gamete-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations

Gametophyte

A gametophyte () is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore that has one set of chromosomes.