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schizogamy

[ ski-zog-uh-mee, skit-sog- ]

noun

, Biology.
  1. reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.


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Example Sentences

The group to which these worms belong—the syllids—are perhaps unique among bilaterally symmetrical animals in this bizarre reproductive strategy, termed “gemmiparous schizogamy.”

In some Syllids this posterior region separates off from the rest, producing a new head; thus a process of fission occurs which has been termed schizogamy.

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