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Spores vs Gamete - What's the difference?

spores | gamete |

As nouns the difference between spores and gamete

is that spores is plural of lang=en while gamete is a reproductive cell (male (sperm) or female (egg)) that has only half the usual number of chromosomes.

As a verb spores

is third-person singular of spore.

spores

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (spore)
  • Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    gamete

    English

    (wikipedia gamete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cytology) A reproductive cell (male (sperm) or female (egg)) that has only half the usual number of chromosomes.
  • Synonyms

    * sex cell * See also

    Hyponyms

    * spermatozoon * sperm * ovum * egg

    Hypernyms

    * germ cell

    Derived terms

    * gametic * gametically * gametocyte * gametogenesis * gametophyte

    See also

    * oocyte * spermatid * meiosis * syngamy