: a gamete (such as an egg or sperm cell) or one of its antecedent cells
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In the labs, visitors are shown how scientists take red blood cells from a developing egg embryo – within the blood will be the primordial germ cells, which develop into egg and sperm in adult birds.—Mike Snider, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026 The process of resurrection After growing the primordial germ cells, the Colossal scientists plan to edit these with dodo-specific genes.—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025 Scientists have previously been able to culture primordial germ cells, or PGCs, of chickens and geese, a technique that has been used to create a chicken fathered by a duck.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025 More specifically, Miller had a germ cell tumor of her ovary.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for germ cell