sexual generation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sexual generation
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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In other gall-flies and in aphids we find that a sexual generation alternates with one or with many virgin generations.
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The spore of a fern or a moss has only half the number of chromosomes that the cells of its producer have, yet it proceeds by asexual multiplication or ordinary cell-division to build up the gametophyte or sexual generation.
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The phenomena of inheritance in the sexual generation of hybrids show this clearly.
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V-VIII represents the sexual generation.
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On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
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