Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual reproduction involving two types of gametes that differ in size.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, conjugation between dissimilar gametes or reproductive cells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
sexual bonding involving partners of unusually widely differing ages. - noun cytology Sexual reproduction involving the union or fusion of two dissimilar gametes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gametes and fertilization are at least as old as animals, with many different types of external and internal fertilization and anisogamy is almost as old.
Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water again ... - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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From isogamy where both “egg” and “sperm” are one and the same, to anisogamy where the egg hecomes the larger and the sperm the smaller one to oogamy where the sperm is now flagellated and fertilizes an egg with no flagella.
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Some green algae produce gametes that differ from vegetative cells, and in some species, the male gamete differs in size or morphology from the female gamete anisogamy
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Maybe this collection is sufficiently different to be separate from wikipedia, but it could still stand to have its own wiki-like organization, so that, for instance, a not-so-basic concept like anisogamy could point to the more-basic concepts like "sexual reproduction" and
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Maybe this collection is sufficiently different to be separate from wikipedia, but it could still stand to have its own wiki-like organization, so that, for instance, a not-so-basic concept like anisogamy could point to the more-basic concepts like "sexual reproduction" and
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