About The Word Heterogamy
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Heterogamy
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What's The Definition Of Heterogamy?Synonyms | Synonyms for Heterogamy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Heterogamy: See Also | Heterogamy In Webster's Dictionary \Het`er*og"a*my\, n. [See {Heterogamous}.]
1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an
indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
2. (Biol.) 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. --Claus & Sedgwick.
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