antithetic theory

antithetic theory
noun
: a theory in botany: the sporophyte and gametophyte are basically distinct with the gametophyte representing the primitive ancestral phase and the sporophyte being a new structure resulting from increasingly retarded zygotic reduction — compare homologous theory

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