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单词 heterogamy
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heterogamyn.

/hɛtəˈrɒɡəmi/
Etymology: formed as heterogamous adj. + -y suffix3; compare French hétérogamie (1842).
The quality or condition of being heterogamous.
1. Botany. Mediate or indirect fertilization of plants.
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1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. ix. 418 These circuitous methods of fertilisation may be called Heterogamy, or ‘crooked fertilisation,’ in contradistinction to the typical and orthodox method, which may be styled Orthogamy, or direct (‘straight’) fertilisation.
2. Biology. The succession of differently organized generations of animals or plants, as where sexual generation alternates with parthenogenesis.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > alternate generation
alternate generation1841
alternation of generations1845
metagenesis1849
heterogenesis1863
heterogamy1884
heterogeny1886
heterogony1906
1884 A. Sedgwick & F. G. Heathcote tr. C. Claus Elem. Text-bk. Zool.: Protozoa to Insecta 543 Chermes affords an example of heterogamy in that two different oviparous generations follow one another: a slender and winged summer generation, and an apterous generation which is found in autumn and spring and lives through the winter.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) Introd. p. xxxi Alternation of Generations..whether in the form known as metagenesis, i.e. the alternation of asexual and sexual individuals, or as heterogamy, i.e. the alternation of parthenogenetic and sexual races.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 508 [In Insects] Alternation of Generations is coupled with parthenogenesis, and is known in this case as Heterogamy.
1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex xv. 207 A sexless fern-plant forms special reproductive cells (spores), which develop parthenogenetically into a sexual prothallus, from the fertilised egg-cell of which the fernplant arises..[this] is called by zoologists, in reference to flukes for instance, heterogamy.
3. Biology (a) The condition of having or producing heterogametes; reproduction involving heterogametes. (b) Heterogamous reproduction.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > others
adosculation1682
autogeny?1818
gemmation1836
parthenogenesis1849
virgin production1849
rejuvenescence1853
agamogenesis1857
monogeny1857
autogenesis1858
homogenesis1858
proliferation1864
monogenesis1866
swarming1867
paedogenesis1870
monogony1873
virginal generation1879
division1880
monogenesy1890
parthenogeny1890
anisogamy1891
isogamy1891
paragamy1891
separation1891
paedogenesis1892
parthenism1892
heterogamy1894
thelytoky1895
flagellation1898
cytogamy1899
pseudogamy1900
tychoparthenogenesis1900
syngamy1904
pseudogamy1907
ectogenesis1909
paedogamy1910
apomixis1913
progenesis1934
agamospermy1939
mixis1944
somatogamy1949
decapitation-
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > gametes > state of
heterogamy1894
heterogamety1932
homogamety1939
1894 S. H. Vines Students' Text-bk. Bot. iii. 275 Heterogamy:—a. Oogamy: sexual cells, oospheres and undifferentiated male cells... b. Carpogamy: no differentiated female cell.
1897 Ann. Bot. 11 106 Isogamy, heterogamy, and conjugation have been observed.
1897 Ann. Bot. 11 118 The curious heterogamy of Aphanochaete.
1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) vii. 584 A third type is true heterogamy... The gametes are here widely different from each other.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 83/2 Heterogamy is also characteristic of land plants and is regarded as the most advanced type of sexual reproduction.

Derivatives

heteroˈgamic adj. characterized by heterogamy (sense 3).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > alternate generation
metagenetic1849
heterogenetic1872
metagenic1883
heterogenic1901
heterogamic1904
1904 Science 3 June 866/1 In the heterogamic subdivision of the homothallic group, a distinct and constant differentiation exists between the zygophoric hyphæ and the gametes derived from them.
1904 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 40 210 Two genera of the homothallic group..are heterogamic in that their gametes show a certain constant inequality in size.
1927 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi 112 None of the heterothallic forms among the mucors is known to be heterogamic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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