Stephanokont
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Stephanokont is an adjective meaning Having a subapical ring of short flagella that are uniform in length.
Meaning
Having a subapical ring of short flagella that are uniform in length.
More Meanings
- An organelle that is stephanokont.
Example Sentences
They reported formation of motile, biflagellate, and stephaokont cells formed in separate gametangia and sporangia on the same plants.
Both macandrous and nannandrous species produce stephanokont sperm in specially differentiated segments of the filament called antheridia.
Although Feldmann (1950) believed the stephanokont zoospores were meiospores and would give rise to the Halicystis stage, just as Kornmann had already shown in Derbesia marina, he also considered it probable that at times the zoosporangia might produce mitospores which could give rise directly to Derbesia plants.
Word Forms
- stephanokonts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stephanokontan, acronematic, stephanocytic, peritrichous, aflagellar, suballantoid.
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