MONOGENESIS

monogenesis, sporulation

(noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

monogenesis (uncountable)

(anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.

(linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.

(biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.

(biology, medicine) Asexual/nonsexual reproduction, which involves only one parent.

The emergence from a single cause.

Antonyms

• polygenesis

Anagrams

• nomogenesis

Source: Wiktionary

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Mon`o*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Mono- + genesis.]

1. Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

2. (Biol.)

Definition: That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. Haeckel.

3. (Biol.)

Definition: The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis. E. van Beneden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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