12) amphimixis. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. amˇphiˇmixˇes (-miksz) The union of the sperm and egg in sexual reproduction. amphi- + Greek mixis, a mingling (from mignunai, mik-, to mingle;...

13) ascus. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...often club-shaped structure in which typically eight ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes. New Latin, from Greek askos, bag....

14) sexual. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...by, or involving reproduction characterized by the union of male and female gametes: sexual reproduction. Late Latin sexulis, from Latin sexus, sex.sexuˇalˇly -ADVERB...

15) vegetative. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...b. Of, relating to, or functioning in processes such as growth or nutrition rather than sexual reproduction. c. Of or relating to asexual reproduction, such as fission...

16) meiosis. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...from one parent cell, each with half the genes of the parent. Meiosis is a key process in sexual reproduction. In the ovaries and testes, meiosis produces a great...

17) schizogamy. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Biology Reproduction in which a sexual form is produced by fission from an asexual one, as in some annelid worms....

18) cryptogam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and gamos, meaning "marriage," was coined by 19th-century botanists because the means of sexual reproduction in these plants was not then apparent. In contrast, in...

19) spore. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...The spores of nonflowering plants are analogous to the seeds of flowering plants. (See asexual reproduction; compare sexual reproduction.) Fungi and algae typically...

20) conjugation. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...during which one cell transfers part or all of its genome to the other. b. A process of sexual reproduction in which ciliate protozoans of the same species temporarily...