| androgenetic merogony | <biology> The development of an egg fragment that has been fertilized by sperm but has no nuclei from the egg. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| merogony | 1. The incomplete development of an ovum that has been disorganised. 2. A form of asexual schizogony, typical of sporozoan protozoa, in which the nucleus divides several times before the cytoplasm divides; the schizont divides to form merozoites in this asexual phase of the life cycle. Origin: mero-+ G. Gone, generation (05 Mar 2000) |
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