An organism or individual that reproduces; a reproductive unit in colonial organisms, variant of gonotokont.
From 'gono-' (reproductive) + a combining form related to 'tokos' (Greek for offspring, childbearing). Used in marine biology as an alternative to 'gonotokont'.
In a colony of thousands of identical creatures, only a few get to be the 'gonontoconts'—the exclusive breeders while everyone else does other jobs, like a medieval peasant village with one noble family.
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