"plastogamy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, Herbert P. Johnson, The Plastogamy of Actinosphaerium, page 269:",
          "text": "The significance of plastogamy is still very obscure, and it is extremely probably that it is not the same in all cases.",
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          "ref": "1964, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, A Treatise on Zoology, page 32:",
          "text": "The frequent occurrence of plastogamy between adult individuals makes it very possible that all the nuclei in the same body may not be of the same origin; and therefore the formation of the primary cyst-nuclei by the fusion of two others might, in many cases, at least, mean the fusion of nuclei originally produced in different individual bodies (Schaudinn).",
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          "ref": "1973, John D. Hopkirk, Endemism in Fishes of the Clear Lake Region of Central California, page 101:",
          "text": "The presence of these in the pseudopodial bolus might conceivably be the stimulus for plastogamy or at least be an indication of the receptive condition of the organism.",
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