primary spermatocyte growth

id: GO:0007285
name: primary spermatocyte growth
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The phase of growth and gene expression that male germ cells undergo as they enter the spermatocyte stage. The cells grow in volume and transcribe most of the gene products needed for the morphological events that follow meiosis.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0003006developmental process involved in reproduction
GO:0048588developmental cell growth
GO:0048610cellular process involved in reproduction