sexual generation

American  

noun

1. the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.

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Etymology

Origin of sexual generation

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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

Indeed, when a plant has monoecious or dioecious flowers, the distinction between the asexual and the sexual generation has practically been lost, and the spore-bearing generation has become identified with the sexual generation.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

In liverworts this preliminary phase of the sexual generation is as a rule ill-marked or absent, and the plant may be said to develop directly from the spore.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The phenomena of inheritance in the sexual generation of hybrids show this clearly.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

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