Metagenesis Definition

Metagenesis Sentence Examples

• Hence the alternation is of the type termed metagenesis.

• In Trachylinae also the beginnings of a similar metagenesis can be found.

• It is quite possible that some of these medusae will be found to be truly hypogenetic, that is to say, with a life-cycle secondarily simplified by suppression of metagenesis.

• The development from the egg may be direct, or may take place with an alternation of generations (metagenesis), in which a non-sexual individual, the so-called scyphistoma or scyphopolyp, produces by budding the sexual medusae.

• A similar origin for metagenesis has been discussed under the Hydromedusae (q.v.).