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The phrase "alternate generation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing processes or methods that involve generating or producing something in an alternating manner, such as in technology or biology.
Example: "The system employs an alternate generation method to optimize energy efficiency."
Alternatives: "alternating generation" or "successive generation".
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alternate generation
noun
Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.
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Its life history involves an alternation of generations, with the seaweed being the sporophyte, while the alternate generation, the gametophyte, are microscopic plants.
Processing events can encompass alternate generation of the transcript, e.g., AS or APA, or subsequent processing, e.g., degradation or deadenylation.
The spores on the string then develop into microscopic gametophytes, which is the alternate generation.
Instead, the alternate generation, the gametophytes, are formed and maintained in a sterile laboratory medium.
It has an alternation of generations with the large seaweed as the sporophyte and a microscopic gametophyte as the alternate generation.
An alternate generation of filamentous algae develops from these spores and burrow into the surface of the shell; this is called the conchocelis stage.
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Parthenogenetic reproduction in Hymenoptera often occurs in a cycle of alternate generations.
Proper orthogonal decomposition applied to the pressure data clarifies the structure of the fluctuating pressures due to TAV and the results of wavelet analyses indicate "non-alternate generation" of them.
The herbicide cycling advocated for weed management is fine-grained, generally requiring alternating generations to be exposed to different herbicide modes of action.
Plant development, a multiphasic process in which two distinct plant forms succeed each other in alternating generations.
In all land plants, the two alternating generations are morphologically dissimilar, and the gametophyte is initially dominant over the sporophyte.
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