homogameticadj.
/hɒməʊɡəˈmiːtɪk/ Biology.
(Of a sex or its individual members) producing gametes that all have the same kind of sex chromosome. Opposed to heterogametic adj.
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gametic1883
gametal1888
oogamous1888
progamic1891
heterogamous1895
gametoid1903
heterogametic1910
homogametic1910
pregamic1934
planogametic1957
1910 E. Wilson in Science Progress IV. ii. 572 If the two kinds of spermatozoa be designated as the ‘X-class’ and the ‘Y-class’, respectively, the eggs are all of the X-class. The male may, accordingly, be designated as the heterogametic sex, the female as the homogametic.
1971 Nature 18 June 432/1 In the Lepidoptera, males are homogametic and females heterogametic.
Derivatives
homogaˈmety n. the state or condition of being homogametic.
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heterogamy1894
heterogamety1932
homogamety1939
1939 C. H. Waddington Introd. Mod. Genetics iii. 81 In a type with female homogamety, Drosophila for example, the non-disjunctional XX eggs with the extra chromosome when fertilized by X sperm give super~females.
1961 A. Müntzing Genetic Res. xiii. 98/2 The occurrence of homo- and hetero-gamety in dioecious plant species was first demonstrated by Correns in Bryonia dioica.
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adj.1910