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Amphimixis

noun
(pl. amphimixes)
1.
Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete.  Synonym: sexual reproduction.
2.
Union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.





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... daughter-nuclei. These nuclei then transmit their characters to the sexual cells, the conjugation of which in fertilization again produces the most varied combinations. (A. Weismann gave the impulse to these ideas in his theory on "Amphimixis".) In this way all the cooperations which the carriers of hereditary characters are capable of in a species are produced; this must give it an appreciable advantage in the struggle ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others


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