Gemmule vs Buds - What's the difference?
gemmule | buds |
(biology) A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges
:1978 Patricia R. Bergquist, "Sponges"
::The actual formation of gemmule's by fresh-water sponges is so clearly an adaptation to seasonal climatic changes, that at first it was reasonable to believe that seasonal alternation itself induced the ' gemmulation .
(obsolete) A hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity
As nouns the difference between gemmule and buds
is that gemmule is (biology) a small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges while buds is .As a verb buds is
(bud).gemmule
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