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oogamous
[o-og´ah-mus] 1. pertaining to or produced by
oogamy.
2. heterogamous.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
oogamous
(ō-ŏg′ə-məs)adj. Characterized by or having small motile male gametes and large nonmotile female gametes.
o·og′a·my n.
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(3, 4, 14) The "active digestion of male organelle nuclei (genomes) during sexual reproduction from uniparental gametes by nucleases" is now thought to be universal among isogamous, anisogamous, and
oogamous organisms.
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