"Heterogamy" is a word in ENGLISH
The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect
or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of
sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation,
alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual
generations alternate.
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One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having …
Read the complete definitionA division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
Read the complete definitionA genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.
Read the complete definitionAlternate generation. See under Generation.
Read the complete definitionThe change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one …
Read the complete definitionAlternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
Read the complete definitionThe production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the …
Read the complete definitionAn animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.
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