Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Alternation of generations between sexual and asexual forms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biol, that modification of parthenogenesis or alternate generation which is exhibited when an organism passes from the egg to the imago through a series of successively generated individuals differing from one another in form: distinguished by Owen from
metamorphosis , or the transformation of any one individual by the modification of its form as a whole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to
monogenesis . See Alternate generation, undergeneration . - noun (Biol.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from
heterogamy .
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- noun biology the
production ofsexual andasexual organisms inalternate generations
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- noun alternation of sexual and asexual generations
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Examples
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But stress-induced metagenesis does cause mutations.
Creationists saturation-bombing Amazon? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Under no circumstances would I even think of stress-induced metagenesis as being responsible from an environmental perspective in causing mutations.
Creationists saturation-bombing Amazon? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Under no circumstances would I even think of stress-induced metagenesis as being responsible from an environmental perspective in causing mutations.
Creationists saturation-bombing Amazon? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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But stress-induced metagenesis does cause mutations.
Creationists saturation-bombing Amazon? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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But stress-induced metagenesis does cause mutations.
Creationists saturation-bombing Amazon? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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We must, however, not forget that we possess the wonderful analogy of ontogeny (individual development) and above all, the fact of mutation and of metagenesis.
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
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