APOMIXES Antonyms

• (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

• reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

• making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure

• the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis

• (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

• understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

• To crossbreed different strains of a plant or animal

• An organism produced by outcrossing

• The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.

• reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete