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Definition of Heterogametes
1. heterogamete [n] - See also: heterogamete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterogametes
Literary usage of Heterogametes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... or swollen; chromatophore single, parietal, with one pyrenoid. Reproduction by
means of zoospores with two cilia and by heterogametes Family ..."
2. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Zoospores and heterogametes dissimilar and motile. Family 17. ... Zoospores and
heterogametes dissimilar, eggs non-motile. Family 19. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... or heterogametes is regarded as more significant than the asexual in deciding
relationships. The class Sporozoa, as originally conceived by Leuckart ..."
4. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"These two are termed heterogametes. Fusion of the relatively small chromatin
sperm-mass with the nucleus of the relatively large egg results in ..."
5. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"The more advanced Green Algae form morphologically unlike gametes called
heterogametes, of which the large ones are called eggs and the small ones are ..."
6. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"In many lower plants there is no recognizable structural difference between the
organs that produce the heterogametes, but a step in advance in this ..."
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