Definition of "gamogenesis" []

• Sexual reproduction. (noun)

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• "Agamogenesis: reproduction without fertilization by a male: see parthenogenesis; gamogenesis."
• "This, in its turn, is as likely as not to disappear shortly through the arising of some difficulty in some entirely new direction, and so on; nor, if function be regarded as of small effect in determining organism, is there anything to ensure either that, even if ground be lost for a season or two in any one direction, it shall be recovered presently on resumption by the organism of the habits that called it into existence, or that it shall appear synchronously in a sufficient number of individuals to ensure its not being soon lost through gamogenesis."