Generally, the male releases his gametes first, which acts as a signal to any females nearby.
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Fertilisation occurs when opposite gametes meet in the water: hence the advantage offered by proximity.
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While ultimately the choice of recipient parents, disclosure to offspring of the use of donor gametes is encouraged.
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Once a tipping point was reached, oysters were too far apart for enough of their gametes to meet, so the population could not sustain itself.
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Under the changes, anyone who provides gametes to a fertility clinic in the state must also provide identifying information about themselves and their medical history .
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How can we safeguard the well-being of everyone involved in assisted reproduction, including children who are produced and third parties who provide gametes or serve as surrogates?
The actual men and women who built their families using donor gametes and then their spend their lives raising their children have been taken out of the equation.
FORBES: Balancing the Rights of Donor Offspring With Those of Donors: But What About Parents?
After blood passes into the mosquito gut, the parasites quickly turn into male and female forms the gametes and emerge from their hiding place inside the red blood cells to mate.
That male and female gametes might meet and make merry whilst contending with turbulent currents, hungry predators and the sex cells of a plethora of likeminded shellfish, is itself a tremendous feat.
They spawn by releasing gametes into the water: a female Atlantic oyster tends to release clouds of eggs in a series of wet puffs, while males send sperm forth in a stream.
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Once the pair of gametes connect, they become a larva that drifts and swims in the tidal current, propelling itself by means of a little organ ringed with cilia called a velium.
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Even if one believes that embryos deserve special respect not granted to gametes, it is far from clear why the sale of embryos to facilitate family building is any more contrary to that respect than the destruction thereof.
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Dr Jane Stewart, a spokeswoman for British Fertility Society and consultant gynaecologist at Newcastle Fertility Centre said the ability to generate gametes (reproducing cells) or gamete producing cells in the lab would be a "landmark achievement in the understanding and potentially treatment of fertility problems".
Whether the sale of gametes diminishes the value of life by putting a price on it and whether the contribution of women to this growing market is adequately compensated are the kinds of questions about which you could set thousands of angels into motion on the head of a pin.
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