(ga meet´ oh site) [Gr. gamete: wife, gametes: husband + kytos: cell] • The cell that gives rise to sex cells, either the eggs or the sperm. (See oocyte and spermatocyte.)
A cell that will, through meiosis, produce gametes.
A cell that can develop into a gamete.
The primary reproductive cells (sperm or ovum).
A gametocyte is a eukaryotic germ cell that divides by mitosis into other gametocytes or by meiosis into gametes. Male gametocytes are called spermatocytes, and female gametocytes are called oocytes. The development of gametogonia to primary gametocytes and of primary gametocytes to secondary gametocytes is called gametocytogenesis.