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the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal
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The two distinct reproductive phases of green plants in which stages alternate between haploid cells and diploid cells (gametophyte cells and sporophyte cells).
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a sequence in a life cycle in which a haploid, gamete-producing phase is followed by a diploid, sporeproducing phrase; the spores of the latter reinitiate the haploid phase; also the reproduction by organisms that do not necessarily or precisely resemble the parent, but the grandparent
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A life cycle in which the generation alternates from sexual to asexual (occurs for example, in sea lettuce).
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This term is applied to a peculiar mode of reproduction which prevails among many of the lower animals, in which the egg produces a living form quite different from its parent, but from which the parent-form is reproduced by a process of budding, or by the division of the substance of the first product of the egg.
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