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UK
/eɪsˈɛkʃuːəl/
]
[ US /eɪˈsɛksjuəɫ/ ]
[ US /eɪˈsɛksjuəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not having or involving sex
an asexual spore
asexual reproduction
How To Use asexual In A Sentence
- Primarily they reproduce asexually, which they accomplish by binary fission, or simple cell division.
- Since the asexual gametophyte does not form antheridia or archegonia, crosses to confirm its genotype could not be performed.
- After each catty little spat, we cut to another uneventful rehearsal scene where boys and girls with asexual physiques pirouette weightlessly about the rehearsal room.
- As for asexual reproduction, the authors discuss why vegetative reproduction works so well for so many aquatic plants: rhizomatous growth (clonal growth), as well as reproduction through fragmentation and the production of corms, stolons, tubers, turions and gemmiparous plantlets.
- During this period, each polyp is capable of budding new polyps though asexual reproduction in spring.
- Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists.
- A pine tree is called a sporophyte because it develops from a spore produces spores is haploid can reproduce sexually and asexually cannot undergo meiosis Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- Workers at both hatcheries keep the plants healthy and repot the tillers, the product of asexual reproduction, which grow into mature plants.
- The changes in asexual reproduction are more likely to be a “single point mutation” and get copied in every successive generation. Think Progress » Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur Coexistence
- asexual reproduction