James Tiptree, Jr.'s 1969 story "Your Haploid Heart" concerns an interplanetary biological investigator with a mission similar to Tiptree's own: defining humanity. 1 He makes a curious discovery — a ...

Haploid gametes contain 23 single chromosomes. copies of the genetic information are made the cell divides twice to form four gametes, each with a single set of chromosomes (haploid) all gametes ...

Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells, and each cell carries only one copy of each chromosome. These reproductive cells are ...

During meiosis, the pairs of homologous chromosome are divided in half to form haploid cells, and this separation, or assortment, of homologous chromosomes is random. This means that all of the ...

Pearl Abu of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana is leading research to establish the first double haploid (DH) maize breeding facility in Ghana.