homogametic, a. Biol.
(hɒməʊgəˈmiːtɪk)
[f. homo- + gametic a.]
(Of a sex or its individual members) producing gametes that all have the same kind of sex chromosome. Opp. heterogametic a.
| 1910 [see heterogametic a.]. 1971 Nature 18 June 432/1 In the Lepidoptera, males are homogametic and females heterogametic. |
Hence homogaˈmety, the state or condition of being homogametic.
| 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. |