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  S. No. Word Meaning Make a Sentence
  1. Allogamy Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
  2. Anisogamy A union between two gametes that differ in size or form.
  3. Apogamy A type of reproduction, occurring in some ferns, in which the saprophyte develops from the gametophyte without fusion of gametes.
  4. Autogamy The union of nuclei within and arising from a single cell, as in certain protozoans and fungi.
  5. Bigamy The state or practice of being married to more than one wife or one husband at a time.
  6. Cleistogamy The state of bearing small flowers as well as fully developed ones, as in the pansy, in which the small ones do not open but are pollinated by their own anthers.
  7. Dichogamy The condition, in some flowering plants, in which the pistils and stamens mature at different times, thus preventing self-pollination.
  8. Digamy A second marriage contracted after the termination of the first by death or divorce Also called deuterogamy.
  9. Endogamy Marriage within one's own tribe or similar unit, pollination between two flowers on the same plant.
  10. Exogamy The custom or an act of marrying a person belonging to another tribe, clan, or similar social unit , fusion of gametes from parents that are not closely related.
  11. Gamy Having the flavor or odor of game, especially game that is slightly spoiled.
  12. Heterogamy The state or condition in which conjugating gametes are dissimilar in structure and size as well as in function.
  13. Hologamy The simplest type of sexual process in unicellular organisms. In hologamy, special sex cells (gametes) are not formed; rather, entire unicellular organisms fuse. Hologamy is observed in some green algae (of the family Polyblepharidae) and in a number of lower fungi (from Ar-chimycetes). Sometimes the term “hologamy” is used to describe the fusion of entire protoplasts that leave the cell walls (for example, in the unicellular algae Conjugate).
  14. Homogamy The simultaneous maturation of the stigma and anthers in a bisexual flower, which makes self-fertilization possible.
OR Transmission by male and female individuals of the same combinations of genes.
  15. Hypergamy A custom that forbids a woman to marry a man of lower social status.
  16. Isogamy A reproductive system characterized by the fusion of gametes (called isogametes) that are not distinguished in size or structure. Isogamy is found in some algae and other protist groups.
  17. Karyogamy The coming together and fusing of cell nuclei, as in fertilization.
  18. Misogamy Hatred of marriage.
  19. Monogamy The practice or condition of having a single sexual partner during a period of time.
  20. Oogamy Sexual reproduction involving a small motile male gamete and a large much less motile female gamete: occurs in all higher animals and some plants.
  21. Plasmogamy Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.
  22. Polygamy The condition or practice of having more than one spouse at one time. Also called plural marriage or A mating pattern in which a single individual mates with more than one individual of the opposite sex.
  23. Syngamy The fusion of two gametes in fertilization.
  24. Xenogamy Transfer of pollen from one plant to another; cross-pollination.

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