Definition of oogamous in English:
oogamous
adjective əʊˈɒɡəməsōˈäɡəməs
Biology Relating to or denoting reproduction by the union of mobile male and immobile female gametes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Identification of the charophycean lineage as the sister group of land plants suggests that their common ancestor was a branched, filamentous organism with a haplontic life cycle and oogamous reproduction.
- Sexual reproduction is known only in two genera: Botrydium, in which the sex cells are isogamous, and Vaucheria, in which the cells are oogamous.
- Particularly in oogamous species, uniparental inheritance of mitochondria has been attributed to the small number of mitochondria in the male gamete.
- All are filamentous, oogamous, and have net-like chloroplasts.
- Oomycetes are oogamous, producing large non-motile gametes called eggs, and smaller gametes called sperm.
Derivatives
adverb
Biology noun əʊˈɒɡəmioʊˈɑɡəmi
Biology It has been suggested that algae with a large volume (plant size) at maturity usually display anisogamy or oogamy, as expected if larger zygotes permit more rapid growth to these adult sizes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Isogamy and anisogamy, and sometimes oogamy may occur.
- Meiosis produces 4 gametes, ie. isogamy, anisogamy and oogamy, which through mitosis develops into mature gametes.