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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



... Sexual reproduction is quite a distinct matter. Here, in all these cases, what is required is the detachment of two portions of the parental organisms, which portions we know as the egg and the spermatozoon. In plants it is the ovule and the pollen-grain, as in the flowering plants, or the ovule and the antherozooid, ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley


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


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