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US
/ˌpɑɹθənoʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
How To Use parthenogenetic In A Sentence
- Arrhenotoky: parthenogenetic reproduction when the progeny are all males: see thelyotoky and deuterotoky. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- The first hypothesis assumes that triploidy is associated with the origin of parthenogenesis and that both diploid and tetraploid parthenogenetic forms are derived.
- Parthenogenetic Anemia has TO basic zymogram and ALP marker zone which are significantly different from those of the bisexual Artemia.
- The females multiply parthenogenetically at an enormous rate, and the insects at all stages are greedily taken by insectivorous animals. Times, Sunday Times
- They can, however, generate "uniparental" embryonic stem cell lines. Uniparental embryos with two maternal sets of chromosomes are known as parthenogenetic.
- Parthenogenetic weevils are apomictic.
- In the text books they call it parthenogenetic unisexual pseudocopulation, or uniparens (one parent). Autotomous Penes & Endless War
- Arctic species of mayflies, scale insects, midges, caddisflies and other groups are known to be parthenogenetic.
- A single infusorian becomes in a week the ancestor of millions, that is to say, of far more individuals than could proceed under the most favourable conditions from a pair of elephants in five centuries, while Huxley calculated that the progeny of a single parthenogenetic aphis, under favouring circumstances, would in a few months outweigh the whole population of China. [ Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
- Soon the whole species would consist only of parthenogenetic females.