{"id":8022,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gametes\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:11","slug":"gametes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gametes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gametes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mature haploid cells that fuse to form a zygote in sexual reproduction. &nbsp;In many organisms, the male gamete is called a spermatozoon, spermatozoid or antherozoid. &nbsp;The female gamete is referred to as an ovum. &nbsp;As haploid cells, they contain half the normal complement of chromosomes and thus when they fuse the diploid number is restored. &nbsp;Gametes are formed by meiosis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"diploid\">Diploid<\/a>, Fertlization (or syngamy), <a href=\"haploid\">Haploid<\/a>, <a href=\"meiosis_-or_reduction_division-\">Meiosis (or reduction division)<\/a>, <a href=\"oogenia\">Oogenia<\/a>, <a href=\"organogenesis\">Organogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"spermatozoa\">Spermatozoa<\/a>, Zygote <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mature haploid cells that fuse to form a zygote in sexual reproduction. &nbsp;In many organisms, the male gamete is called a spermatozoon, spermatozoid or antherozoid. &nbsp;The female gamete is referred to as an ovum. &nbsp;As haploid cells, they contain half the normal complement of chromosomes and thus when they fuse the diploid number is restored. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gametes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gametes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}