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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, a mode of generation which consists in the interior division of the body into a mass of spores or germs, which are freed upon the rupture of the body-wall; also, spore-formation. Usually called
sporulation .
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Yet we know in biology that the reproduction of molecular vegetable bodies is by scission with alternate sporation, and that of molecular animals is by scission with alternate conjunction.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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