Isogamy is common in algae and protists, but virtually all animal species are anisogamous, producing small motile gametes, or sperm, and large gametes, or eggs.
What is isogamy and examples?
isogamy īsŏg´əmē [key], in biology, a condition in which the sexual cells, or gametes, are of the same form and size and are usually indistinguishable from each other. ... In most sexual reproduction, as in mammals for example, the ovum is quite larger and of different appearance than the sperm cell.
Is isogamy is found in Plasmodium?
The isogamous gametes unite to form a zygote that grows into a sporoblast, a sporocyst, a trophozoite, and eventually a young trophozoite. Plasmodium reproduces by both asexual and sexual means. It is a digenetic animal which life cycle is completed in two hosts.