Crossword-Solution: HETEROGAMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heterogamy | n. | The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. |
| Heterogamy | n. | 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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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HETEROGAMY | anagram | GAMETHEORY |
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Sentences with HETEROGAMY (4)
That harmonises with the fact that homogamy, as it is called, predominates over heterogamy, that like is attractive to like.
Heterogamy: applied to those cases in which two sexual or a sexual and parthenogenetic generation alternate.
The principal alterations to be mentioned under this head may therefore be conveniently arranged under the following categories:--Union, Independence, Displacement, Prolification, Heterotaxy, and Heterogamy.
The unusual development of the sexual organs in diclinous flowers has been alluded to under the head of heterogamy, and other cases where the symmetry of the flower is rendered regular, by the development of parts ordinarily suppressed, will be found in the chapters relating to deviations from the usual number of organs.