sexual generation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sexual generation
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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It should also be observed that in sexual generation, the ovules and the male element have equal power of transmitting every single character possessed by either parent to their offspring.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
We have seen that variability does not depend on sexual generation, though much more frequently its concomitant than of bud reproduction.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Along with that remarkable process which, beginning in minute forms with what is called conjugation, developed into sexual generation, there came into play causes of frequent and marked fortuitous variations.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
It would seem that the reproductive elements are not so completely blended by grafting as by sexual generation.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
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