单词 | sexual reproduction |
释义 | > as lemmassexual reproduction 5. Biology. Of reproduction in animals, plants, and other organisms: taking place by means of a physical connection or fusion between two cells (usually distinct male and female reproductive cells or gametes) and the recombination of their genetic material to produce a new cell with a genotype containing elements from each. Esp. in sexual reproduction. Opposed to asexual or agamic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > sexual sexual1794 gamic1858 gamogenetic1858 syngenetic1864 digenous1884 sexuparous1899 androgenetic1903 gynogenetic1925 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xxxix. 514 Many flying insects..seem to undergo a general change of their forms solely for the purpose of sexual reproduction. 1800 E. Darwin Phytologia i. 7 It [sc. a bud] contains the rudiments of organs adapted to lateral generation or the production of new buds; or to sexual propagation and the consequent production of seeds. 1872 H. C. Wood Contrib. Hist. Freshwater Algæ 100 The propagation is both sexual and non-sexual. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 251 Conjugation is the simplest form of sexual reproduction. 1889 A. W. Bennett & G. R. M. Murray Handbk. Cryptogamic Bot. 272 The only known sexual mode of reproduction [in the Confervoideae] is an isogamous one between two masses of protoplasm. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. i. 11 Sexual multiplication by means of special germ-cells or sex-cells is much more economical. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) ii. 11 The fungi and moulds are multicellular and possess a sexual phase of reproduction. 1978 Fortune (Nexis) 19 June 100 The trouble with sexual reproduction, from a cloner's viewpoint, is that it involves a genetic reshuffle, producing offspring that are not an exact match of either parent. 2006 Nature 2 Mar. p. xi The origin and persistence of sexual reproduction in living organisms remains one of the deepest mysteries of biology. < as lemmas |
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