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Sexual reproduction   /sˈɛkʃuəl rˌiprədˈəkʃən/   Listen
Sexual reproduction

noun
1.
Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete.  Synonym: amphimixis.






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"Sexual reproduction" Quotes from Famous Books



... collect on the formation of hybrids between distinct species or varieties, without the intervention of the sexual organs. For if, as I am now convinced, this is possible, it is a most important fact, which will sooner or later change the views held by physiologists with respect to sexual reproduction. A sufficient body of facts will afterwards be adduced, showing that the segregation or separation of the characters of the two parent-forms by bud- variation, as in the case of Cytisus adami, is not an unusual though a striking phenomenon. ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Sexual reproduction" :   reproduction, anisogamy, isogamy



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