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Definition of Syngamy
1. the union of two gametes [n -MIES] : SYNGAMIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syngamy
Literary usage of Syngamy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"It is now too late to state with any considerable degree of probability the course
of evolution of the germ cells and the process of syngamy. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"syngamy.2—The essence of typical syngamy is, that two
cells '"pairing-cells," "gametes") of the same species approach one another, and
fuse, cytoplasm with ..."
3. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"Gametogenesis and syngamy have not been found, although isolated instances
resembling stages in syngamy have been seen. Hartman (Jour. ..."
4. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"In many cases this "reduction" of the chromatin occurs immediately prior to
syngamy (sexual union),i and so agrees with reduction in higher forms in taking ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"... first described in 1871 by Janczewski, and since then has been more fully
investigated by Harper and by Dangeard, The process of syngamy in Ascobolus ..."
6. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Inability to undergo syngamy has no effect on viability of race. [See also next
preceding Entry, 347.]—Austin R. Middleton. 349. ..."
7. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"It is now too late to state with any considerable degree of probability the course
of evolution of the germ cells and the process of syngamy. ..."
8. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"syngamy.2—The essence of typical syngamy is, that two
cells '"pairing-cells," "gametes") of the same species approach one another, and
fuse, cytoplasm with ..."
9. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"Gametogenesis and syngamy have not been found, although isolated instances
resembling stages in syngamy have been seen. Hartman (Jour. ..."
10. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"In many cases this "reduction" of the chromatin occurs immediately prior to
syngamy (sexual union),i and so agrees with reduction in higher forms in taking ..."
11. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"... first described in 1871 by Janczewski, and since then has been more fully
investigated by Harper and by Dangeard, The process of syngamy in Ascobolus ..."
12. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Inability to undergo syngamy has no effect on viability of race. [See also next
preceding Entry, 347.]—Austin R. Middleton. 349. ..."
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