Definition of Sexual reproduction

1. Noun. Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete.

Exact synonyms: Amphimixis
Member holonyms: Amphimixis
Specialized synonyms: Anisogamy, Isogamy
Generic synonyms: Reproduction

Medical Definition of Sexual reproduction

1. The process where two cells (gametes) fuse to form one hybrid, fertilizedcell, results in a new genome that is different than that of either parent. (09 Oct 1997)

Literary usage of Sexual reproduction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"Viviparity with sexual reproduction.—Although most insects that reproduce sexually are oviparous, there are a considerable number in which sexual ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"sexual reproduction is by means of non-motile eggs, set free singly from superficial, ... sexual reproduction is by the union of the nucleus from a naked, ..."

3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"This explanation is applicable to by far the greater majority of cases, namely, to all cases where the term sexual reproduction can be applied. ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"For sexual reproduction two animals are commonly necessary, a female and a male; the reproductive cells —the eggs—of one must be fertilized by the ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"And, moreover, the complicated apparatus necessary for sexual reproduction and transmission, itself showing the wide variations it does in different ..."

6. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"sexual reproduction.—Reproduction by the union of male and female elements, or gametes, ts fairly general throughout the Algae, but it is entirely absent in ..."

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