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Metagenesis definition

mĕtə-jĕnĭ-sĭs
Alternation of generations between sexual and asexual forms.
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(biol.) Reproduction in which there is alternation of an asexual with a sexual generation, as in many cnidarians.
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Alternation of generations between sexual and asexual forms.
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The definition of metagenesis is the reproduction cycle of an organism that alternates between sexual and asexual generations.

An example of metagenesis is the reproduction cycle of a cnidarian.

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Origin of metagenesis

  • meta- +"Ž -genesis

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Metagenesis Sentence Examples

  • Hence the alternation is of the type termed metagenesis.

  • In Trachylinae also the beginnings of a similar metagenesis can be found.

  • It is quite possible that some of these medusae will be found to be truly hypogenetic, that is to say, with a life-cycle secondarily simplified by suppression of metagenesis.

  • The development from the egg may be direct, or may take place with an alternation of generations (metagenesis), in which a non-sexual individual, the so-called scyphistoma or scyphopolyp, produces by budding the sexual medusae.

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