(n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
(2) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(3) Effect of microsporidiosis on the fecundity of hosts A. c. caspius was studied.
(4) Fecundability was only 12% lower for women in the 30-39 year age interval than for women up to 29 years of age.
(5) Data in relation to evolution cycle, period between emergency of adults and first oviposition, fecundity, fertility, amount of blood ingested and fast resistance, are presented.
(6) We conclude that cycle fecundity rates and cumulative pregnancy rates are significantly greater using a combination of hMG and IUI compared with either modality alone in the treatment of male factor, cervical factor, endometriosis, or unexplained infertility.
(7) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
(8) We show by genetic crosses that each gene makes an equivalent contribution to the fecundity and fertility of the female and they do not individually provide unique functions to the embryo.
(9) were significantly higher in Booroola ewes containing a major fecundity gene (FF and F+ ewes) compared to those values in Booroolas with no copy of the gene (++ animals; P less than 0.025).
(10) Fecundity among genotypes was not different, although there was an effect on the total number of offspring suggesting differences in egg-to-adult survivorship.
(11) The higher fecundability of more recent cohorts is the most consistent observation.
(12) Electrophoretic partition of the semen plasma of dogs with fecundity disturbances also showed the presence of three fractions, whose migration path and protein concentration are identical with those found in the semen plasma of fertile dogs.
(13) mortality was high), while the nymphal instars showed an adverse effect on ecdysis and adults which emerged from the treated last nymphal instar were characterized by high mortality, abnormal behaviour and reduced fecundity and viability.
(14) Thus, parity had little effect on fecundity in aging females, whereas the cessation of regular ovulatory cycles during aging greatly decreased both the incidence of fertility and the litter size.
(15) Neither sex nor the age of the host was found to influence the fecundic life span or the survival of female adult worm.
(16) The viabilities and fecundities of these same lines were determined by a segregation test using the SM5 balancer chromosome.
(17) The numbers of vitellogenic oocytes in the ovary during the entire study also suggested that atresia of vitellogenic oocytes does not play a prominent role in determining fecundity.
(18) Fecundability of 104 healthy women attempting to become pregnant was halved by consumption of the equivalent of 1 cup of brewed coffee or more daily.
(19) A possible relation between prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking and adult fecundability in women was explored, with the use of data from a prospective study of 221 North Carolina couples.
(20) The processes, connected with the population's reproduction fecundity and the birth number play a great part in the health formation of different populations.
Fructification
Definition:
(n.) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
(n.) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
(n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
Example Sentences:
(1) ), fructification of the mould occurred, the growth rhythm was retarded and, after the necrotization of spots, the leaf died away.
(2) Subsequent analysis of the mycelium produced under Mn2+ deficient growth revealed that alpha-1,3 glucan, the man carbon and energy source for fructification, was virtually absent from the cell wall.
(3) Vegetative cells were grown on SP agar and then transferred to Bonner salts agar for fructification.
(4) P. oligandrum produced numerous fructification organs in contradistinction to parasitized species.
(5) The abundance of sexual fructifications in the tissue indicates that pathogenicity is due to Microascus cinereus.
(6) Maximum of fructification is in the first decade of October.
(7) A new bacteria named Prevotella bacterioglaeae is studied in curious types of fructification.
(8) has been successfully cultured for the first time on a known semisynthetic mediumn with no evident loss of fructifications.
(9) A saturated solution of orseillin BB in 3% acetic acid followed by a 1% aqueous solution of crystal violet provides an excellent differential staining for sections of ascomycetous fructifications.
(10) Radioactivity translocation of 14C-Ecolyte-polystyrene along fungal hyphae and asexual fructification of strains, isolated from soil, as well as cytological modification at the cell wall level of the same microfungi, cultivated in the presence of polystyrene have been ascertained.
(11) Procedures for sectioning fungal fructifications in host tissues or on artificial media are described, which allow observation of internal structures by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) Mating with a compatible monokaryon yielded a dikaryon capable of normal fructification.
(13) Mutability and abnormal development of the life cycle are responsible for self-fructification.
(14) A simple two-variable mathematical model is proposed, able to acount for periodic variations relating to growth in Podospora anserina and fructification in Aspergillus niger.
(15) While similar preservation was obtained in sectioned acervuli of Lecanosticta acicola and Marssonia juglandis and in pycnidia of Dothiorella ribis and Phomopsis occulta, the mucilaginous substances produced in these fructifications precluded observation of conidiophores.
(16) Optimum conditions for a laboratory-scale fructification were investigated.