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metagenesis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Metagenesis  \Met`a*gen"e*sis\,  n.  [Pref.  meta-  +  genesis.] 
  1.  (Biol.)  The  change  of  form  which  one  animal  species 
  undergoes  in  a  series  of  successively  produced 
  individuals,  extending  from  the  one  developed  from  the 
  ovum  to  the  final  perfected  individual.  Hence  metagenesis 
  involves  the  production  of  sexual  individuals  by  nonsexual 
  means  either  directly  or  through  intervening  sexless 
  generations.  Opposed  to  {monogenesis}.  See  {Alternate 
  generation},  under  {Generation}. 
 
  2.  (Biol.)  Alternation  of  sexual  and  asexual  or  gemmiparous 
  generations;  --  in  distinction  from  heterogamy. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  metagenesis 
  n  :  alternation  of  sexual  and  asexual  generations  [syn:  {digenesis}] 




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