Un ciclo de vida desde un punto de vista biológico es un período que incluye todas las diferentes generaciones de una especie que , sucede mediante la reproducción, ya sea a través de la reproducción asexual o sexual (es el período que va desde una generación de organismos a que se vuelvan a manifestar los mismos de manera idéntica). Por ejemplo, el complejo ciclo de vida de la Fasciola hepatica, un gusano parásito, incluye tres diferentes generaciones multicelulares: 1) "adultos" hermafroditas; 2) esporocistos, 3) redias.tu cola En cuanto a los cambios de ploidía, existen 3 tipos de ciclos: \n* Ciclo de vida haplóntico \n* Ciclo de vida diplóntico \n* Ciclo de vida diplobióntica Estos tres tipos de ciclos de vida poseen etapas alternadas haploidía y diploidía. Para retornar a la etapa haploidía, de tener lugar meiosis. Los ciclos se diferencian en cuanto a cual es el producto de la meiosis, y si puede ocurrir mitosis (crecimiento). Las meiosis zigótica y gamética poseen una etapa y forma mitotica: durante la fase n en la meiosis zigótica y durante la fase 2n en la meiosis gamética. Por lo tanto, las meiosis zigóticas y gaméticas son denominadas en forma colectiva haplobiónticas (una sola mitosis en cada fase). Por otra parte la meiosis espórica, posee dos eventos de mitosis (diplobióntica): uno en cada fase.

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In biology, a life cycle is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state. "The concept is closely related to those of the life history, development and ontogeny, but differs from them in stressing renewal." Transitions of form may involve growth, asexual reproduction, and/or sexual reproduction. In some organisms, different "generations" of the species succeed each other during the life cycle. For plants and many algae, there are two multicellular stages, and the life cycle is referred to as alternation of generations. The term life history is often used, particularly for organisms such as the red algae which have three multicellular stages (or more), rather than two. Life cycles that include sexual reproduction involve alternating haploid (n) and diploid (2n) stages, i.e., a change of ploidy is involved. To return from a diploid stage to a haploid stage, meiosis must occur. In regard to changes of ploidy, there are 3 types of cycles: \n* haplontic life cycle — the haploid stage is multicellular and the diploid stage is a single cell, meiosis is "zygotic". \n* diplontic life cycle — the diploid stage is multicellular and haploid gametes are formed, meiosis is "gametic". \n* haplodiplontic life cycle (also referred to as diplohaplontic, diplobiontic, or dibiontic life cycle) — multicellular diploid and haploid stages occur, meiosis is "sporic". The cycles differ in when mitosis (growth) occurs. Zygotic meiosis and gametic meiosis have one mitotic stage: mitosis occurs during the n phase in zygotic meiosis and during the 2n phase in gametic meiosis. Therefore, zygotic and gametic meiosis are collectively termed haplobiontic (single mitotic phase, not to be confused with haplontic). Sporic meiosis, on the other hand, has mitosis in two stages, both the diploid and haploid stages, termed diplobiontic (not to be confused with diplontic).

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