Producing only one type of gamete with respect to sex chromosomes; in humans and most animals, the female is h.. SYN: monogametic. [homo- + G. gametikos, connubial]
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ho·mo·ga·met·ic -gə-'met-ik, -'mēt- adj forming gametes that all have the same type of sex chromosome
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adj.
describing the sex that produces only one kind of gamete, which carries the same sex chromosome, and that therefore does not determine the sex of the offspring. In humans women are the homogametic sex: each egg cell carries an X chromosome. Compare heterogametic.
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ho·mo·ga·met·ic (ho″mo-gə-metґik) pertaining to production of gametes containing only one kind of sex chromosome, as in the human female.Medical dictionary. 2011.