What's the difference between acrogen and cryptogam?

Acrogen


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under scanning electron microscopy, the surface of the spore showed pineapple-like form, the cluster of the acrogenous spores presented flower shape, and the antler-like hyphae appeared twisted in the culture.

Cryptogam


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The activity of destruxin E, a cryptogamic toxin isolated from the hyphomycete Metarhizium anisopliae, was studied on mouse leukemia cells (L 1210 and P 388) in culture.
  • (2) The fine-structural features of fertilization in Fucus are discussed in relation to the fertilization patterns in other cryptogams and marine invertebrates and to polar axis determination in the Fucaceae.
  • (3) An extension of this tree by sequences of other cryptogamic plants (Mougeotia, Ceratodon, Psilotum) shows all these sequences including those of the phytochromes B and C of Arabidopsis on a branch, well separated from the branch formed by phytochromes known to accumulate in etiolated plants.

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