Androsporangium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Androsporangium is a noun meaning A sporangium for androspores.
Meaning
A sporangium for androspores.
Example Sentences
The androsporangia produce the androspores which are special kinds of zoospores and give rise to the “dwarf males” as in Œdogonium.
The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament. The contents of each androsporangium are metamorphosed into a single androspore.
The androsporangium is usually produced in the neighbourhood of an oogonium and becomes the mother-cell of a motile ciliated spore known as an androspore, intermediate in size between an antherozoid and a zoogonidium.
Word Forms
- androsporangia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include autosporangium, germosporangium, androgonidium, androspore, monosporangium, oosporangium.
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