Definition of Sporogenesis

1. n. reproduction by spores.

Definition of Sporogenesis

1. Noun. (cytology) The process by which spores are produced. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Sporogenesis

1. Reproduction by spores. Origin: Spore + genesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporogenesis

sporked
sporking
sporks
sporo-
sporoagglutination
sporoblast
sporoblasts
sporocarp
sporocarps
sporocysts
sporocyte
sporocytes
sporodochium
sporogeneses
sporogenesis (current term)
sporogenetic
sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium
sporoid
sporont
sporophores
sporophoric

Literary usage of Sporogenesis

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The omission of the process of chromosome reduction, characteristic of sporogenesis, gives the gametophytes the sporophytic number of chromosomes (2x). ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"Apparently the essential matter to him is his observation that several liverworts conform to the normal sequence of nuclear division during sporogenesis. ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1917)
"... either through the doubling of the original ancestral number in the fusion of two gametes or through the halving of the original number in sporogenesis. ..."

4. Studies from the Biological Laboratory by Johns Hopkins University Biological Laboratory (1890)
"It is probable that Epen thesis also is an example of sporogenesis, and that the endodermal tube is derived from a single cell by segmentation, ..."

5. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"Since it is precisely at sporogenesis that reduction occurs, the natural inference is that a separation of qualitatively different sex-factors of some kind ..."

6. Investigations representing the departments by University of Chicago, E.F. Young, John Dewey (1903)
"sporogenesis Except for a recent paper by Timberlake (1902) on Hydrodictyon, we know little of the details of zoospore formation in either algae or fungi, ..."

7. Investigations Representing the Departments; Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"sporogenesis Except for a recent paper by Timberlake (1902) on Hydrodictyon, we know little of the details of zoospore formation in either alga e or fungi, ..."

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