Meaning of "oogamous" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF OOGAMOUS

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Oogamous is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OOGAMOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oogamy

Oogamy is the familiar form of sexual reproduction. It is a form of anisogamy in which the female gamete is significantly larger than the male gamete and is non-motile. The male gametes are typically highly motile spermatozoa competing for the fertilization of the immotile egg. By contrast to isogamy, the gametes are specialized. The ovum contains nearly all of the materials that will be needed by the zygote after fertilization, but it typically cannot move. The sperm contains almost nothing but the male genetic contribution to the zygote, but it is usually tasked with all of the travel necessary to bring the respective gametes together. The prevalence of oogamy in higher animals leads to the conclusion that this specialization of the gametes results in their performing their respective tasks better and more efficiently than those tasks could be performed by generalist isogametes, particularly the ability to concentrate high-energy substances in a smaller number of ova. Oogamy predominantly occurs in animals, but can also be found in many protists, certain orders of algae, and some plants such as bryophytes, ferns, and some gymnosperms like cycads and ginkgo.

Definition of oogamous in the English dictionary

The definition of oogamous in the dictionary is of or relating to sexual reproduction involving a small motile male gamete and a large much less motile female gamete: occurs in all higher animals and some plants.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OOGAMOUS»

Discover the use of oogamous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oogamous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Textbook of Algae

Oedo- goniales and Charales are purely oogamous (Fig. 9. 70 A and 9. 1 02). The oogamous type of reproduction is also shown by Chlamydomonas coccifera (Fig. 9.20), Volvox (Fig. 9.30), Oedocladium, Coleochaete, Chlorogonium, ...

O. P. Sharma, 1986

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: latest edition. A dictionary ...

latest edition. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature Day Otis Kellogg, William Robertson Smith Thomas Spencer Baynes. female cell ( oosphera) is fertilized by a small motile male cell (antherozoid), when it is laid to be oogamous.

Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, 1902

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences ...

female cell (oosphere) is fertilized by * mall motile male cell (antherozoid), when it ia aaid to be oogamous. The isogamous process usually takes place between free-swimming ciliated cells (piano- gametes) ; but in the group of the Conjugate  ...

‎1890

The Evolution of Sex Determination

include some pennate diatoms (e.g. Seminavis ro- busta or Tabularia tabulata), where mating actually occurs among gamonts, and isogamy evolved secondarily from oogamous ancestors. 2.1.6 Epigenetic sex differentiation According to our ...

Leo Beukeboom, Nicolas Perrin, 2014

Seaweed Ecology and Physiology

... diemensis oogamous dictyotene (b) Desmarestia viridis oogamous desmarestene (c) Laminariales (except Chorda) oogamous lamoxirene (g) Chorda tomentosa oogamous multifidene (d) Zonaria angustata oogamous multifidene (d) Fucus ...

Christopher S. Lobban, 1994

The Encyclolpaedia Britannica

female cell (oosphere) is fertilized by a small motile male cell (antherozoid), when it is said to be oogamous. The isogamous process usually takes place between free-swimming ciliated cells (piano- gametes) ; but in the group of the Conjugatx ...

‎1899

Encyclopædia Britannica: Americanized encyclopædia Britannica

Isogamous forms: PanJorina, Stephanosphara (spherical), Gonium (flattened). b. Oogamous forms: Volvox, Eudorina, Chlamy- domonas (unicellular). Order 3. Hydrodictyea — Multicellular plants ; body unattached, a net (ffydrodiftyon) or a flat ...

‎1890

Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica, Revised and Amended: A ...

Volvocinea. — Unicellular or multicellular plants ; body free-swimming by means of cilia, either spherical or a flat plate. a. Isogamous forms: Pandorina, Stephanosphara (spherical), Gonium (flattened). b. Oogamous forms: Volvox, Eudorina, ...

‎1890

Americanized Encyclopaedia britannica: rev. and amended A ...

Volvocinea. — Unicellular or multicellular plants ; body free-swimming by means of cilia, either spherical or a flat plate. a. Isogamous forms; Pandorina, Stephanosphara (spherical), Goniiim (flattened). b. Oogamous forms: Volvox, Eudorina, ...

‎1890

The home encyclopædia: compiled and revised to date from the ...

VolvoeinetT. — Unicellular or multicellular plants ; body free-swimming by means of cilia, either spherical or a flat plate. a. Isogamous forms: Pandorina, Stephanosphicra (spherical), Gonimn (flattened). b. Oogamous forms: Volvox, Eudorina, ...

‎1895