Growth of an organism from an unfertilized gamete, or sex cell. It is common in the animal kingdom up through the class Insecta, but it occurs much more rarely thereafter.
Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος parthenos, "virgin", + γένεσις genesis, "creation") is an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and ...
In parthenogenesis ("virgin birth"), the females produce eggs, but these develop into young without ever being fertilized. Parthenogenesis occurs in some fishes, several kinds of ...
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