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Meaning of "anisogamy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANISOGAMY

anisogamy  [ˌænaɪˈsɒɡəmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANISOGAMY

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Anisogamy is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ANISOGAMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anisogamy

Anisogamy refers to a form of sexual reproduction involving the union or fusion of two dissimilar gametes — anisogamous, anisogamic,. The smaller gamete is considered to be male, whereas the larger gamete is regarded as female. There are several types of anisogamy. Both gametes may be flagellated and thus motile. Alternatively, neither of the gametes may be flagellated. This situation occurs for example in some algae and plants. In the red alga Polysiphonia, large non-motile egg cells are fertilized by small, non-motile spermatia. In flowering plants, the gametes are non-motile cells within gametophytes. The form of heterogamy that occurs in animals is oogamy. In oogamy, a large, non-motile egg cell is fertilized by a small, motile sperm cell. The large egg cell is optimized for longevity, whereas the small sperm cell is optimized for motility and speed. The size and resources of the egg cell allow for the production of pheromones, which attract the swimming sperm cells.

Definition of anisogamy in the English dictionary

The definition of anisogamy in the dictionary is a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar, either in size alone or in size and form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANISOGAMY


allogamy
əˈlɒɡəmɪ
apogamy
əˈpɒɡəmɪ
autoallogamy
ˌɔːtəʊəˈlɒɡəmɪ
autogamy
ɔːˈtɒɡəmɪ
cleistogamy
klaɪˈstɒɡəmɪ
cryptogamy
krɪpˈtɒɡəmɪ
endogamy
ɛnˈdɒɡəmɪ
exogamy
ɛkˈsɒɡəmɪ
hercogamy
hɜːˈkɒɡəmɪ
heterogamy
ˌhɛtəˈrɒɡəmɪ
hologamy
həʊˈlɒɡəmɪ
homogamy
hɒˈmɒɡəmɪ
isogamy
aɪˈsɒɡəmɪ
karyogamy
ˌkærɪˈɒɡəmɪ
misogamy
mɪˈsɒɡəmɪ
monogamy
mɒˈnɒɡəmɪ
plastogamy
plæsˈtɒɡəmɪ
porogamy
pɔːˈrɒɡəmɪ
siphonogamy
ˌsaɪfənˈɒɡəmɪ
zoogamy
zəʊˈɒɡəmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANISOGAMY

aniseikonia
aniseikonic
anisette
anisic
anisocercal
anisodactyl
anisodactylous
anisogamous
anisole
anisomeric
anisomerous
anisometric
anisometropia
anisometropic
anisomorphic
anisophyllous
anisophylly
anisotropic
anisotropically
anisotropy

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANISOGAMY

bigamy
chalazogamy
chasmogamy
clistogamy
deuterogamy
digamy
geitonogamy
hypergamy
oogamy
pangamy
pantagamy
plasmogamy
polygamy
serial monogamy
syngamy
thingamy
trigamy
xenogamy

Synonyms and antonyms of anisogamy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anisogamy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANISOGAMY

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The translations of anisogamy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anisogamy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

anisogamy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anisogamy
570 millions of speakers

English

anisogamy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

anisogamy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تزاوج متفاوت الأعراس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анизогамия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anisogamia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

anisogamy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anisogamie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anisogamy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anisogamie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

anisogamy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anisogamy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anisogamy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anisogamy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒவ்வாப் புணரியுண்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिसोगैमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anisogamy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anisogamy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anisogamy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анізогамія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anisogamy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανισογαμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anisogamy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anisogamy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anisogamy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anisogamy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANISOGAMY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANISOGAMY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anisogamy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANISOGAMY»

Discover the use of anisogamy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anisogamy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Evolution of Anisogamy: A Fundamental Phenomenon ...
Does sperm limitation, or escape from infection, better explain the need for extremely small, highly mobile sperm? Written by leaders in the field, this volume offers an authoritative and cutting-edge overview of evolutionary theory.
Tatsuya Togashi, Paul Alan Cox, 2011
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Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective
Figure 2.4 The evolution of anisogamy when gamete survival (of both mating types; solid curve) and zygote survival are functions of gamete and zygote size, respectively. When survival and fitness follow the Vance function (survival or fitness ...
Tim R. Birkhead, Dave J. Hosken, Scott S. Pitnick, 2008
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Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution
We first introduce the concept of anisogamy and review its significance to the evolution of sexual dimorphism and sex-specific reproductive strategies. Second, we outline the fitness relationships arising over interactions within and between ...
Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore, Jan Komdeur, 2010
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Adaptive Diversification (MPB-48)
7.2 DIVERSIFICATION IN GAMETE SIZE: EVOLUTION OF ANISOGAMY Anisogamy refers to the differentiation in gamete size between males (the sex producing small gametes) and females (the sex producing large gametes), which is a ...
Michael Doebeli, 2011
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
5.4.2 Anisogamy and sperm warfare The theoretical rationale for the production of a large number of small mobile sperm by males has already been discussed in the context of anisogamy (see Chapter 4). In this respect, one could argue that ...
John Cartwright, 2000
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The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
Priya and I then decided to follow up the Charlesworth model with our own formulation to highlight and make more explicit the role of contact instead of conflict in the evolution of anisogamy, hereafter called the IR model.26 We considered the ...
Joan Roughgarden, 2009
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Hermaphroditism: A Primer on the Biology, Ecology, and ...
From this disruptive selection regimen favoring both large gametes and small gametes in the population, anisogamy eventually emerged as an evolutionarily stable outcome. Hurst (1990) offered a different scenario for the evolutionary origin ...
John C. Avise, Trudy H. Nicholson, 2013
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Introduction to Population Biology
The seeds of this conflict and competition lie in the evolution of anisogamy. It is generally assumed that the gametes were all similar in the primitive condition (i.e. isogamy), but gradually two types of gametes evolved (i.e. anisogamy) in most ...
Dick Neal, 2004
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The Diatom World
Broadly speaking, there are three general characters derived from modes of sexual reproduction: oogamy, anisogamy, isogamy (we acknowledge that the situation is more complex than this simple division). And these characters are seen to ...
Joseph Seckbach, John Patrick Kociolek, 2011
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The Woman That Never Evolved: with a new preface and ...
Anisogamy was the initial inequality in cell size, and the legacy of anisogamy was a system in which males tended to compete for females. Success favored males with the wanderlust needed to find females, the aggressiveness and weaponry ...
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, 2009

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANISOGAMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anisogamy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vital Questions — A Book Review
It means, astonishingly, that mitochondrial variation alone can explain the evolution of multicellular organisms that have anisogamy (sperm and ... «ScienceBlog.com, May 15»
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Mate magnet madness: when the range of possible explanations …
Anisogamy is sexual reproduction formed by unequal gametes, in our lineage a big egg made by females and little sperm made by males. «Scientific American, Oct 11»
3
Females Can Limit Male Trait Complexity
Anisogamy (see figure 1), or sexual reproduction in which two different gametes fuse to produce a new individual, leads to an inequality ... «Science 2.0, Aug 11»
4
Sex life of sea squirts revealed
Lead author and University of Queensland PhD student Angela Crean says in the past much of the literature on anisogamy (large eggs and ... «ABC Science Online, Aug 08»
5
Researchers Investigate Giant Sperm Paradox
In essence, sperm competition is attributed with the evolutionary maintenance of anisogamy. I became interested in understanding whether the ... «Science a Gogo, Jun 06»

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