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gemmule - translation to french
REPRODUCTIVE BUD OF SPONGES
Gemmulation
gemmule
n. gemmule, gemma, leaf bud, budlike growth which separates from the parent plant to form a new plant (Botany); asexually produced mass of cells which may form into a new organism (Zoology)
Definition
Gemmule
·noun One of the buds of mosses.
II. Gemmule ·noun An Ovule.
III. Gemmule ·noun One of the reproductive spores of algae.
IV. Gemmule ·noun A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
V. Gemmule ·noun A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
VI. Gemmule ·noun One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. ·see Pangenesis.
Wikipedia
Gemmule
Gemmules are internal buds found in sponges and are involved in asexual reproduction. It is an asexually reproduced mass of cells, that is capable of developing into a new organism i.e., an adult sponge.
