Akinet - Akinet

…In mosses and vascular plants, they are simply called spores. Akinetes are specialized cells for asexual reproduction that resemble spores. When all the cells produced are the same shape, they are called homospores, and when there are two types of spores depending on their size, they are called heterospores. The larger spores are called megaspores, and the smaller spores are called microspores. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…コケ植物や維管束植物では単に胞子とよばれる。アキネートakineteは胞子に似た無性生殖のための特殊な細胞である。つくられる細胞がすべて同形のものを同形胞子homospore，大きさによって2種類ある胞子を異形胞子heterosporeといい，大きい方の胞子を大胞子megaspore，小さい方の胞子を小胞子microsporeという。…

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