adj
Occurring without the union of male and female gametes; asexual.
n
(botany) The asexual production of embryos and seeds.
adj
(biology) Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
adj
(botany) Characterized by allogamy.
n
(obsolete) sexual reproduction
n
(uncountable) sexual reproduction
n
(botany, zoology) Male or paternal apomixis, involving fusion of the male and female gametes and replacement of the female nucleus by the male nucleus.
n
(biology) A difference in the size or structure of conjugating gametes.
adj
(biology) Relating to anisogamy.
n
(cytology) Sexual reproduction involving the union or fusion of two dissimilar gametes.
adj
(botany) Of or relating to apogamy.
adj
(botany, zoology) Of, pertaining to, or characterised by apomixis.
n
(zoology) Animal reproduction in which the egg cell does not undergo meiosis or fertilization.
n
(zoology, reproduction) The production of only male offspring.
n
(biology) A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
n
(biology) Any form of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes.
adj
Exhibiting or relating to autogamy.
adj
Alternative form of bromeligenous [That breeds in bromeliads]
adj
Relating to chalazogamy.
adj
Exhibiting or relating to chasmogamy.
adj
Alternative form of cleistogamous [(botany) Pertaining to cleistogamy.]
adv
(chiefly botany) By means of asexual reproduction.
adj
Of or relating to the cryptogams.
n
The condition of being a cryptogam.
n
(biology) "hidden" sexual reproduction in a normally asexual organism
n
(biology) The condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime.
n
(biology) The condition of being dioecious.
adj
(zoology) Having two modes of embryonic development.
n
(biology) The penetration of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
n
(biology) The fusion of two related gametes.
adj
Of or relating to endophytes.
n
(biology) A form of reproduction in some polychaete annelids in which the worms undergo a partial or complete transformation into an epitoke, a pelagic morph capable of sexual reproduction
adj
(usually) In a nonparasitic way, using an animal's skin as a microhabitat.
adj
(zoology) Of sperm in species that exhibit sperm heteromorphism, fertile.
adj
Relating to the euthyneurans
adj
Pertaining to exogamy.
n
(biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes
adj
Formed as a result of syngamy (union of gametes), sexually produced, sexual.
n
(biology) A set of organisms in which any pair of members can breed together, i.e. exchange gametes to produce fertile offspring.
adj
Relating to or exhibiting geitonogamy
n
(biology) The production of a bud or gem.
n
(biology) reproduction by budding; gemmation
adj
Alternative form of gonochoristic [Of or pertaining to gonochorism]
n
(biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of at least two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
n
An organism that has this colouration
adj
(biology) Describing a plant or fungus that has either a haploid or a diploid phase (but not both) in its life cycle. That is, it lacks any alternation of generations.
adj
Exhibiting, or relating to, herkogamy.
adj
(biology) Relating to, or exhibiting heterodichogamy
adj
(biology) Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.
adj
(biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
n
(biology) dimorphism in sperm cells
adj
(botany) Relating to hydroautogamy
adj
Of, or related to hypergamy.
adj
Pertaining to, or exhibiting isogamy
n
(biology) A form of sexual reproduction involving gametes of similar morphology.
n
(biology) The condition of being iteroparous
adj
Of or relating to metaprotaspis.
adj
(biology) colonized by a single species of microbe
adj
(physiology) Of, pertaining to, or showing monocrotism.
adj
Relating to monogamists or to monogamy
n
(obsolete) asexual reproduction
adj
Having a single type of parasite
adj
Relating to monophialides.
adj
(obsolete, biology) unicellular
adj
(taxonomy, Of a genus) containing only one known species.
adj
(biology, of a culture) Containing a single unidentified organism
adj
(biology, of a parasite) Living on only one kind of host
n
(biology) A form of anisogamy (heterogamy) in which the female gamete (e.g. ovum) is significantly larger than the male gamete (sperm) and is non-motile.
n
(taxonomy) An ootaxon, equivalent to a genus, used to classify fossilised dinosaur eggs
n
The failure of (typically insect) eggs to form or to develop
adj
(botany) Of or pertaining to orthogamy
adj
(zoology) Producing ova only; said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.
n
(botany) production of (seedless) fruit without fertilization of ovules.
adj
Alternative form of peritropal [rotatory; circuitous]
adj
Relating to phagedena.
adj
Of or relating to a phalanstery.
adj
Of or pertaining to phoresis or to phoronts
n
(biology) The presence of planogametes
n
(biology) Any polytrophic organism.
adj
(zoology) reproducing by budding
n
asexual reproduction via propagules
n
(biology) The condition in which an organism begins life as a female and then changes into a male.
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudogamy.
adj
(biology) Of or relating to schizogamy.
adj
(biology) Relating to schizogamy
n
(biology) reproduction involving the splitting of an organism into a sexual and an asexual individual
adj
(biology) Reproducing by fission.
adj
(biology) Describing a generation of aphids that produces sexual offspring
n
(biology) The condition of being stenogamous
adj
Relating to synantherology.
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to syngamy.
n
(zoology) The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material.
adj
(biology) Involving, or originating from four gametes.
adj
Of or relating to tetragamy.
n
(zoology, reproduction) The production of only female offspring.
n
The condition of being unicellular
n
(zoology) An aphid produced by parthenogenesis, identical in genotype to its mother.
adj
(botany) Exhibiting or relating to xenogamy.
n
(zoology) The sexual reproduction of animals.
adj
Pertaining to zoogeny or producing life.
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