gemmation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gemmation
From the French word gemmation, dating back to 1750–60. See gemmate, -ion
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MULLER, J., tendency to variation. -atrophy of the optic nerve consequent on destruction of the eye. -on gemmation and fission. -identity of ovules and buds. -special affinities of the tissues.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
The starting-point, not only of every higher animal or plant, but of every clan of organisms which by fission or gemmation have sprung from a single organism, is always a spore, seed, or ovum.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
HUXLEY, Prof., on the transmission of polydactylism. -on unconscious selection. -on correlation in the mollusca. -on gemmation and fission. -development of star-fishes.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
If this fact were fully established, it would, by the aid of our hypothesis, connect gemmation and sexual reproduction in the closest manner.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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