Usually means: Successive generations with different characteristics.
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  1. alternate generation: Wordnik
  2. alternate generation: Wiktionary
  3. Alternate generation: Dictionary.com
  4. alternate generation: FreeDictionary.org
  5. Alternate generation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alternate generation: Encyclopedia

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  2. alternate generation: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (alternate generation)

noun:  (biology) 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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