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Definition of Agamogenesis
1. Noun. Reproduction without the fusion of gametes.
Specialized synonyms: Apomixis, Blastogenesis, Budding, Fission, Fissiparity, Monogenesis, Sporulation, Parthenogenesis, Parthenogeny, Virgin Birth, Gemmation, Pullulation
Generic synonyms: Reproduction
Derivative terms: Agamogenetic
Definition of Agamogenesis
1. n. Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
Definition of Agamogenesis
1. Noun. asexual reproduction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Agamogenesis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Agamogenesis
Literary usage of Agamogenesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bi-Sexual Man Or Evolution of Sexes by Francis H. Buzzacott, Mary Isabel Wymore (1912)
"The phenomenon of the birth of Christ may be explained, physiologically, in a
similar manner, as one of many instances of agamogenesis which research along ..."
2. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley (1903)
"No case of agamogenesis is known in which, when A differs widely from B, it is
itself capable of sexual propagation. No case whatever is known in which the ..."
3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"Throughout almost the whole series of living beings, however, we find concurrently
with the process of agamogenesis, or asexual generation, another method ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"If it be true, the occurrence of agamogenesis in the animal kingdom must bear an
approximatively inverse ratio to the complexity of the organization of the ..."
5. An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy by Frederick Howard Collins, Herbert Spencer (1889)
"And Pseudo-parthenogenesis, intermediate between the two, being agamogenesis
carried on in a reproductive organ, a process familiarly exemplified in the ..."
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