Fertilization vs Orthogamy - What's the difference?
fertilization | orthogamy |
The act or process of rendering fertile.
The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
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, title= (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant
As nouns the difference between fertilization and orthogamy
is that fertilization is the act or process of rendering fertile while orthogamy is fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.fertilization
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Alternative forms
* fertilisationNoun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization', because self-'''fertilization''' will result in less diverse offspring than ' fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}