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Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..

Irregeneration :: Irregeneration (n.) An unregenerate state.

Seed :: Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.

Caseation :: Caseation (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Genesis :: Genesis (n.) Same as Generation.

Regenerative :: Regenerative (a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences..

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Generation :: Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..

Accrementition :: Accrementition (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds..

Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..

Syngnathi :: Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

Traducianism :: Traducianism (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism..

Procreation :: Procreation (n.) The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

Generation :: Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..

Sexual :: Sexual (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation..

Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.

Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants..

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