The development or origin of a coenocyte; the process by which multiple nuclei come to exist within a shared cytoplasm.
From Greek koinos (common) + genesis (origin/creation), used in developmental biology and mycology to describe how certain organisms form multinucleated structures.
In mushroom fungi, coenogenesis is how a single-celled fungal spore transforms into a vast interconnected network with thousands of nuclei—it's like one cell deciding to become many without actually dividing.
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