noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
produce
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Females, producing large, non-motile gametes , have evolved many times.
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As gamete-production proceeds, it will have a non-zero probability of death or of becoming unable to produce gametes.
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Later, however, these germ cells undergo meiosis, to produce gametes .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A female produces few, large, immobile gametes called eggs.
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A male is defined as the gender that produces sperm or pollen: small, mobile, multitudinous gametes.
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Almost certainly, the first sexually reproducing organisms produced only small motile gametes, as many simple animals and plants do today.
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But size is not the only difference between male and female gametes.
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Diploidy is restored when two haploid gametes fuse.
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In order to meet this third requirement, then, gametes must be able to find and make contact with other gametes.
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This explains why there are two genders, one with small gametes, the other with large ones.
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We start from the gross difference in size of the male and female gamete .