Dormant Meaning In Biology. Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes. Something that is dormant is not active growing or being used at the present time but is capable of becoming active later on.
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping. Refers to a perennial plants state of temporary metabolic inactivity or minimal activity. Volcanos not erupting and not extinct.
The dormant egg survives the winter and gives rise to the amictic females of the next spring.
Collins Dictionary of Biology 3rd ed. The male population increases most mictic eggs become fertilized resulting in the production of a heavy-shelled dormant egg with much yolk. Bewlay and Black 1994 have divided seed dormancy into two categories seed coat based and embryo based. Middle English from Old French from present participle of.
