sexual generation

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sexual generation¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

In other gall-flies and in aphids we find that a sexual generation alternates with one or with many virgin generations.

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The spore of a fern or a moss has only half the number of chromosomes that the cells of its producer have, yet it proceeds by asexual multiplication or ordinary cell-division to build up the gametophyte or sexual generation.

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

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That is to say, only alternate generations attain sexual maturity, those that do so being produced as buds from a sexless generation, which itself arises from the fertilized eggs of a previous sexual generation.

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V-VIII represents the sexual generation.

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