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Definition of Reproductive cell

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

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Literary usage of Reproductive cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the reproductive cell which functions in its origin. The parent is himself merely a byproduct of the fertilized egg (or zygote) out of which he arose. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In reality the parent does not produce the child nor even the reproductive cell which functions in its origin. The parent is himself merely a byproduct of ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"More wonderful yet, while this reproductive cell is building up the new ... The reproductive cell, while in its proper tissue, gave rise to cells like ..."

4. An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes (1899)
"must originate de nova from a single reproductive cell," the theory of pangenesis supposes the very contrary—viz., that somatic changes in the past history ..."

5. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"THE essential feature of the sexual reproduction of plants and animals also, is the fusion of two special kinds of cells, namely, a male reproductive cell, ..."

6. A Text-book of the Principles of Animal Histology by Ulric Dahlgren, William Allison Kepner (1908)
"In this case each cell does not develop into a new individual by itself, but joins with another reproductive cell, derived usually from another individual ..."

7. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Arthur Everett Shipley (1889)
"The reproductive cells thus formed must have possessed exactly the same molecular structure as the mother reproductive cell, and would therefore pass ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"There being no carrying cells which surround, feed, and nurse the reproductive cells of Protozoa, but the reproductive cell being itself and alone the ..."

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