Merogony
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Merogony is a biological term with two distinct meanings:
- Protozoal merogony is an asexual replication process used by some protozoan parasites that increases the number of infective cells by multiple cell divisions.
- Merogony (ovum) may also refer to embryonic development that occurs in a fragment of an ovumOvumAn ovum is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete. Both animals and embryophytes have ova. The term ovule is used for the young ovum of an animal, as well as the plant structure that carries the female gametophyte and egg cell and develops into a seed after fertilization...
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