heterogamy
41homogamy — n. [Gr. homos, same; gamos, marriage] The preference of a mating individual for another with similar phenotype or genotype; see heterogamy …
42heterogamic — See heterogamy. * * * …
43-gamy — a combining form with the meanings marriage, union, fertilization, pollination, of the kind specified by the initial element: exogamy; plastogamy; allogamy; also forming nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in gamous: heterogamy. [comb. form… …
44pollination — /pol euh nay sheuhn/, n. Bot. the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma. [1870 75; POLLINATE + ION] * * * Transfer of pollen grains in seed plants from the stamens, where they form, to the pistil. Pollination is required for… …
45reproductive system, plant — Introduction any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …
46heterogamous — adjective a) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers b) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature …
47anisogamy — Fusion of two gametes unequal in size or form; fertilization as distinguished from isogamy or conjugation. [aniso + G. gamos, marriage] * * * an·isog·a·my (an″i sogґə me) [aniso + Gr. gamos marriage] in the most restrictive sense,… …
48Gabriele Marranci — Born February 4, 1973 (1973 02 04) (age 38) Florence, Italy …
49oogamy — oog·a·my (o ogґə me) in the most restrictive sense, fertilization of a large nonmotile female gamete by a small, motile male gamete or sperm, as in certain algae; the term is often used more generally to mean the sexual union of two… …
50conjugation — Synonyms and related words: Anschluss, IC analysis, Janus, abutment, abuttal, accidence, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, affiliation, affix, affixation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, allomorph, amalgamation,… …
