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

In this chapter we clearly see that variability is not necessarily contingent on sexual generation, though much more frequently its concomitant than on bud-reproduction.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. 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

By the opening of the capsule the spores are set free, and under suitable conditions germinate and give rise to the sexual generation.

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

The sexual generation is a small green thalloid structure called a prothallium, which bears antheridia and archegonia, each archegonium having a neck-canal and oosphere, which is fertilized just as in the moss.

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

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