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A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

rove. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.

A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.

See Genet, a horse.

f 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. Claus & Sedgwick.

Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

e in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Haeckel.

A small Spanish horse; a genet.

Metagenetic.

Ontogenetic.

One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.

Osteogenetic.

Parthenogenetic.

A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are ex…

s maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two polar bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only one. The first polar body formed is usually larger than the second one, and often divides into two after its separation from the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes maternal chromatin from the ovum to make room…

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

cterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to Ant: monophyletic.

, but somewhat smaller; also called bonobo. It is considered (1996) as having the closest genetic relationship to humans of any other animal. It is found in forests in Zaire, and is an endangered species.

The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.