autogamy
Americannoun
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Botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy).
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Biology. conjugation in an individual organism by division of its nucleus into two parts that in turn reunite to form a zygote.
noun
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self-fertilization in flowering plants
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a type of sexual reproduction, occurring in some protozoans, in which the uniting gametes are derived from the same cell
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The union of nuclei within and arising from a single cell, as in certain protozoans and fungi.
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It appears that this plant has lost the capacity for autogamy; at any rate, if a stigma be pollinated with pollen from the same flower on plants in a garden, no result follows.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John
The terms xenogamy, geitonogamy, and autogamy were first suggested by Kerner in 1876; their definition will be found at page 9 of Ogle's translation of Kerner's "Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," 1878.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
The opposite of allogamy is autogamy, or self-pollination.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
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