ascogeny
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny."
- "A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production."
- "A discarded hypothesis held that a second karyogamy event occurred in the ascogonium prior to ascogeny, resulting in a tetraploid nucleus which divided into four diploid nuclei by meiosis and then into eight haploid nuclei by a supposed process called brachymeiosis, but this hypothesis was disproven in the 1950s."