Vocabulary : Heteroecious to Heterogenetic

Heteroecious : Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autoecious.
Heterogamous : The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster. ;; Characterized by heterogamy.
Heterogamy : The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. ;; That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
Heterogangliate : Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.
Heterogene : Heterogenous.

Heterogeneal : Heterogeneous.
Heterogeneity : The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.
Heterogeneous : Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up.
Heterogenesis : Spontaneous generation, so called. ;; That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.
Heterogenetic : Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.

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