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sporocyst
  1. (biology) A cyst that develops from a sporoblast and from which sporozoites develop
  2. A larval stage in many trematode worms
  3. A structure in Ascosphaera fungi within which the asci form
  4. Examples:
    1. “Within the sporocyst, a special form of asexual reproduction, known as polyembryony, then occurs.”
      “Once it reaches the final site, the larva transforms into a sporocyst, which is little more than an amorphous, germinal sac.”
      “We sometimes find the cercarian age passed over, and the young distomes appear abundantly without tails in the sporocyst.”
spore
  1. A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.
  2. A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “In mushroom cultivation, the spore acts as a microscopic vehicle for dispersing potential microorganisms across different substrates.”
sporidium
  1. (botany) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
  2. A spore.
  3. Examples:
    1. “When the family arrived home, Janine was diagnosed with the stomach bug cryptoweeks sporidium, which kept her in bed for another three weeks before she could return to work.”
sporozoan
  1. Any of many parasitic protozoans, of the class Sporozoa, that reproduce alternately sexually and asexually via spores; they are responsible for diseases such as malaria
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By far the most common sporozoan intestinal parasite is Cryptosporidium parvum.”
      “Such sporozoan infections are usually unresponsive to treatment and diseased fish should be removed from the tank.”
      “Plasmodium, a genus of parasitic protozoans of the sporozoan subclass Coccidia that are the causative organisms of malaria.”
sporoblast
  1. A sporozoan cell, found in the oocyst of the malarial parasite in the mosquito, that produces spores and sporozoites
sporophyte
  1. (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Many algae are characterized by an alternation of haploid gametophyte and diploid sporophyte generations.”
      “Finally, greater moisture availability would enhance transfer of motile gametes, thereby leading to more successful sporophyte development.”
      “Meiosis results in the production of four megaspores, containing half the number of chromosomes of the sporophyte.”
sporopollenin
  1. (botany) A combination of biopolymers, observed in the exine layer of the spore and pollen wall.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After the respective diffusion time, sporopollenin capsules were sedimented by centrifugation.”
      “Palynomorphs may be composed of organic material such as chitin, pseudochitin and sporopollenin.”
      “After the dissolution of the callose wall, the sporopollenin wall begins to form.”
sporophorocyst
  1. A vesicle, in microsporidians, that contain sporoblasts and spores
sporozoite
  1. (cytology) Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Maturation of the oocysts leads to sporozoite release into the hemocoel.”
      “The sporoplasm, representing the sporozoite, is always single.”
      “Sanaria's mission is to develop and commercialize live, whole sporozoite vaccines against malaria.”
sporinite
  1. An exinite maceral found in coal formed from spores and pollen.
sporophore
  1. A spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The part of a fungus that is generally visible is the fruiting body, or sporophore.”
      “Most of basidiomycetes are characterized by the large sporophore on which the basidia with its basidiospores are borne.”
      “As compared to the population from xerothermic grasslands, the forest plants are on average 4 cm larger, and the higher the plant, the more exposed is the sporophore.”
sporocyte
  1. A cell that produces haploid spores during meiosis
sporogony
  1. The formation of sporozoites from spores or zygotes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Africa, as is widely known, is a generally hot continent, and so is particularly susceptible to more rapid sporogony.”
      “Sporozoites, the product of sporogony, migrate to the salivary glands and are injected into the bloodstream when a mosquito bites a person.”
      “The enveloped sporogony is endogenous in spore sacs of sporont origin, daughter cells are formed by vacuolation.”
sporocarp
  1. (mycology) The structure on a fungus which houses the spore-producing organs.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One of these threads reaches and fertilizes a cell at the apex of the nucleus or solid body of the sporocarp.”
      “In each treatment plot, mycorrhizal production was assessed by measuring sporocarp, root tip colonization, and extramatrical hyphal production.”
      “Each embryo germinates and pushes itself out of the sporocarp to form a plantlet, the sporophyte, that floats to the water surface.”
sporomorph
sporoplasm
  1. (biology) The protoplasm of a spore
sporification
  1. (biology) The formation of spores.
sporogenesis
  1. (cytology) The process by which spores are produced.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Male sporogenesis begins with the division of a diploid sporophytic cell that gives rise to the tapetal initial and the sporogenous cell.”
      “Extensive investigations on the morphological changes during sporogenesis have afforded valuable information about this phenomenon.”
      “In the final stages of sporogenesis, a dense perine is deposited on the spore surface.”
sporicide
  1. A substance that kills spores.
  2. Examples:
    1. “OxyCide is an EPA-registered disinfectant, virucide, sporicide, deodorizer and one-step cleaner.”
      “A sporicide will typically destroy all other germ species as well.”
sporophorocysts
  1. plural of sporophorocyst
sporifications
  1. plural of sporification
sporopollenins
  1. plural of sporopollenin
sporogeneses
  1. plural of sporogenesis
sporoblasts
  1. plural of sporoblast
sporomorphs
  1. plural of sporomorph
sporophores
  1. plural of sporophore
  2. Examples:
    1. “They produce forcibly discharged asexual spores from sporangiophores or sporophores and do not produce sporangia.”
      “Spores produced on sporophores, compacted into one or more globose or disciform bodies, contained within a distinct peridium.”
      “The sporophores are inclined to be simple, stipitate and dendroid.”
sporophytes
  1. plural of sporophyte
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bryophytes are characterized by their dominant gametophytic plant body and their sporophytes epiphytic to gametophytes.”
      “The sporophytes also develop opercula, peristomes, continuous columella, and a spongy layer between the amphithecium and the spore mass.”
      “Gametophytes became sexually mature in 2 weeks and the first leaves of the sporophytes became visible in about 4 weeks.”
sporozoites
  1. plural of sporozoite
  2. Examples:
    1. “They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion.”
      “Oocytes ingested from contaminated soil or other sources excyst in the duodenum, and released sporozoites invade the intestine.”
      “The sporozoites migrate to the salivary glands and are inoculated into a new vertebrate host when the mosquito feeds.”
sporidia
  1. plural of sporidium
  2. Examples:
    1. “When screening germ plasm for Karnal bunt resistance, allantoid secondary sporidia produced in solid media should be used as inoculum.”
      “Other species contain linear sporidia, which are often the length of the ascus, and may either be simple or septate.”
      “The term sporidia he limits to spores produced or enclosed in an ascus, as in the ascomycete.”
sporinites
  1. plural of sporinite
sporocarps
sporocysts
  1. plural of sporocyst
sporocytes
  1. plural of sporocyte
sporozoans
sporicides
  1. plural of sporicide
sporogonies
  1. plural of sporogony
spores
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