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WHAT IS GAMETS
A gamete is a cell produced by an organism for the purpose of sexual reproduction. In humans, the egg and the sperm are the two sexual cells, which differ in their size and in other qualities such as the quantity of each that the body produces. Each of these cells has 23 chromosomes, exactly half of the number found in the other cells of the body. They are formed by special cellular division called meiosis, which occurs only in the primary sex organs — the testes and the ovaries. Fertilization combines the gametes of both parents into a zygote.


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