
1) Aeciospore 2) Agamete 3) Ascospore 4) Ascosporic 5) Ascosporous 6) Basidiospore 7) Basidiosporous 8) Carpospore 9) Carposporic 10) Carposporous 11) Chlamydospore 12) Conidiospore 13) Conidium 14) Endospore 15) Macrospore 16) Megaspore 17) Microspore 18) Oospore 19) Pollen 20) Seed 21) Tetraspore
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1) Agamete 2) Bacillus product 3) Basidium-borne body 4) Biological reproducer 5) Bit of fungus 6) Bit of pollen 7) Body in a case 8) Cell from a fern 9) Dutch magazine 10) Fern agent 11) Fern cell 12) Fern feature 13) Fern fruit 14) Fern germ 15) Fern seed 16) Fern source 17) Fungal seed 18) Fungus beginning
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in non-flowering plants only a simple propagule, produced either sexually or asexually, and consisting of one or a few cells.
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A discrete sexual or asexual reproductive unit, usually enclosed by a rigid wall, capable of being disseminated.
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• (n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. • (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants. • (n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw. • (n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, ro...
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a minute reproductive unit in fungi and lower plant forms.
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a reproductive cell capable of developing into a new individual without fusion with another reproductive cell. Spores thus differ from gametes, ... [13 related articles]
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a minute reproductive body produced by primitive organisms, such as ferns and fungi.
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A microscopic reproductive cell of non-flowering plants (i.e. ferns, lichens, mosses, fungi, and algae). Many times we can see spores on the backside of ferns.
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A form taken by certain microbes that enables them to exist in a dormant stage. It is an asexual reproductive cell. See Asexual reproduction, Dormant.
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A one-celled reproductive body produced by relatively primitive plants.
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<plant biology> Highly resistant dehydrated form of reproductive cell produced under conditions of environmental stress. ... Usually have very resistant cell walls (integument) and low metabolic rate until activated. Bacterial spores may survive quite extraordinary extremes of temperature, dehydration or chemical insult. Gives rise to a new i...
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(spor) a refractile, oval body formed within bacteria, especially Bacillus and Clostridium, which is regarded as a resting stage during the life history of the cell, and is characterized by its resistance to environmental changes. the reproductive element, produced sexually or asexually, of one of the lowe...
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A microscopic reproductive body in ferns and fern allies.
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A microscopic, single-cell body by which ferns, fungi and mosses reproduce
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A general term for resistant resting structures formed by many bacteria and fungi.
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Highly resistant dehydrated form of reproductive cell produced under conditions of environmental stress. Usually have very resistant cell walls (integument) and low metabolic rate until activated. Bacterial spores may survive quite extraordinary extremes of temperature, dehydration or chemical insult. Gives rise to a new individual without fusion with another cell.
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Spore noun [ Greek ... a sowing, seed, from ... to sow. Confer
Sperm .]
1. (Botany) (a) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. » Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryp...
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A simple reproductive body, usually composed of a single detached cell, and containing no embryo.
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A spore is a reproductive cell that can develop into an individual without first fusing with another reproductive cell. Plants, fungi, bacteria, and some Protozoa produce spores. A spore may develop into an organism resembling the parent or into another stage in the life cycle, either immediately or after a period of dormancy. In plants showing alt...
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Highly resistant, thick-walled "resting stage" formed by certain bacteria, to ensure their survival during periods of unfavorable environmental conditions; it germinates quickly once favorable conditions have been restored to produce a new generation of bacteria. Also, a general term referring to the reproductive cells of certain microorganisms, p....
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n. A single cell that is dispersed as a reproductive unit, or that encapsulates a cell during unfavorable environmental conditions; in organisms with an alternation of generations; the products of meiosis are spores.
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A form of a microorganism, such as a bacterium, that is dormant and stable in the environment, but can become capable of reproducing after infecting an animal or person.
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noun a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; `a sexual spore is formed after the fus...
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A reproductive structure developing in certain bacteria and fungi which is strongly resistant to environmental influences but which will become active under suitable conditions.
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