Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the origination of spores; the vital process whereby spores are produced.
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Examples
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Instead, the division was looked upon as spore-formation, and neither Laveran, nor the numer -
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All summer the process of spore-formation and distribution keeps up.
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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
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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.
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