sexual generation

American  

noun

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

---

Etymology

Origin of sexual generation

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Plants that are reproduced asexually often appear to deteriorate after a few generations unless a sexual generation is introduced.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

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

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

In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.

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

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