Definition of "gametogenesis" []

• The formation or production of gametes. (noun)

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• "Considering data demonstrating extensive human exposure, we think that current environmental levels of Cd could be deleterious to early gametogenesis."
• "In both females and males, androgens but also estrogens play an important role in gametogenesis."
• "The whiteness was a genomic "error" during the process gametogenesis or recombination, and only later turned out to be pertinent to environmental adaptation."