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gonotocont Biol.|gəʊˈnɒtəʊkɒnt|
Also gonotokont.
[ad. G. gonotokont (J. P. Lotsy 1904, in Flora XCIII. 70), f. gono- + Gr. τοκωντ-, τοκῶν pres. pple. of τοκᾶν to be near delivery.]
Any cell that may undergo meiosis; also, any organ containing such a cell.
[1905Amer. Naturalist XXXIX. 494 Lotsy..proposes the term ‘Gonotokonten’ ..for the mother-cells which inaugurate reduction phenomena.] 1909A. C. Seward Darwin & Mod. Sci. vi. 105 In the nuclei of all those cells which we may group together as gonotokonts (i.e. cells concerned in reproduction) there are fewer chromosomes than in the adjacent body-cells (somatic cells). 1928C. W. Dodge tr. Gäumann's Compar. Morphol. Fungi i. 1 The product of fertilization is called a zygote as long as it remains unicellular; it develops into a diplont which forms gonotoconts (organs in which meiosis occurs). 1965J. Wilkinson tr. Langeron's Outl. Mycol. (ed. 2) ix. 375 The diplont produces gonotoconts or spore mother cells. |