spore-formation

A very characteristic method of reproduction is that of spore-formation, and these minute reproductive bodies, which represent a resting stage of the organism, are now known in many forms.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Very soon, however, each one attacks a new red corpuscle and the process of feeding, growth and spore-formation continues, taking exactly the same time for development as in the first generation, so every forty-eight hours in the case of the _vivax_, and every seventy-two hours in the case of the _malariæ_ a new lot of these spores and the accompanying waste products are thrown out into the blood.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Although these bacilli are so extremely minute (Fig. 7), some of them so small that they cannot be seen with the most powerful microscopes, they differ in size, shape, methods of division and spore-formation.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

This is the process of spore-formation and we see that from a single individual we may have by division, not two animals as in the amoeba, but a score or more of them.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Instead, the division was looked upon as spore-formation, and neither Laveran, nor the numer -

The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

All summer the process of spore-formation and distribution keeps up.

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

Reproduction takes place by division or by spore-formation.

Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906

And if it be objected that encystation and spore-formation in the Protozoa are not always preceded by conjugation, the answer would be that neither is oviparous propagation in the Metazoa invariably preceded by fertilization.

Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871