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plastogamy Biol.|plæˈstɒgəmɪ|
[f. Gr. πλαστ-ός moulded + -γαµία marriage.]
The fusion of the protoplasm of two or more cells or unicellular organisms, as in the formation of a plasmodium. Hence plastoˈgamic a., pertaining to plastogamy.
1891Hartog in Nature 17 Sept. 483/2 Plastogamy: the fusion of cytoplasta into plasmodium, the nuclei remaining free. 1901G. N. Calkins Protozoa 218 Thus cytotrophy, leading first to contiguity, may result in plastogamy, or the fusion of cell-plasms. Ibid., Four individuals may be found in plastogamic union. |