👉 In biology, a heteromastigote is a type of spore produced by asexual reproduction in which a single individual cell (the sporophyte) splits into two individual cells. These cells are then separated and grow together to form a new spore. This process is called meiosis. The term "heteromastigote" refers to the fact that a heteromastigote contains only one set of chromosomes, while an asexual spore contains two sets of chromosomes
