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Definition of Spores

Spore
Spore Spore, n. [Gr. ? a sowing, seed, from ? to sow. Cf. Sperm.] 1. (Bot.) (a) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike that they have only their minuteness in common. The peculiar spores of diatoms (called auxospores) increase in size, and at length acquire a siliceous coating, thus becoming new diatoms of full size. Compare Macrospore, Microspore, O["o]spore, Restingspore, Sph[ae]rospore, Swarmspore, Tetraspore, Zo["o]spore, and Zygospore. (b) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants. 2. (Biol.) (a) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc. (b) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw. Spore formation. (a) (Biol) A mode of reproduction resembling multitude fission, common among Protozoa, in which the organism breaks up into a number of pieces, or spores, each of which eventually develops into an organism like the parent form. --Balfour. (b) The formation of reproductive cells or spores, as in the growth of bacilli.

Meaning of Spores from wikipedia

- Alete spores show no lines. In monolete spores, there is a single narrow line (laesura) on the spore. Indicating the prior contact of two spores that eventually...
- Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 – 7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles. In...
- The spore print is the powdery deposit obtained by allowing spores of a fungal fruit body to fall onto a surface underneath. It is an important diagnostic...
- appearance of molds is due to the formation of spores containing fungal secondary metabolites. The spores are the dispersal units of the fungi. Not all...
- fungi Milky spore, a bacterium of the white grubs of ****anese beetles Bacterial morphological plasticity, bacteria changing into spores This disambiguation...
- resting spores is product of two acytokinetic divisions of the parent cell, wherein the cytoplasm of the daughter cells is shared. The resting spores produced...
- begins with inhaled spores being transported through the air p****ages into the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs. The spores are then picked up by...
- In solar physics, Spörer's law is an empirical law for the variation of heliographic latitudes at which solar active regions form during a solar cycle...
- Spörer is a lunar impact crater that lies just to the north of the crater Herschel, and southeast of the lava-flooded Flammarion. To the southeast is Gyldén...
- spore application). Resident spores in the soil are swallowed by grubs during their normal pattern of feeding on roots. This ingestion of the spore by...