parthenogenetic's Usage Examples:

, 1902); he has obtained a fairly concordant result for the broods of parthenogenetic Daphnia (Proc.

It appears that in parthenogenetic eggs two polar nuclei are formed.

Claims to have created both cloned and parthenogenetic human embryos in November seem to have been premature.

The Coccidae can, and mainly do, breed asexually (parthenogenetically).

Some authors looking upon these as parthenogenetic ova regard the developmental cycle as one composed of an alternation of parthenogenetic and of sexual generations.

These root-dwelling insects are females, which lay parthenogenetic eggs.

Warren has shown by direct observation that the correlation between brothers among the broods produced parthenogenetically by one of the Aphides has a value not far from the 2 observed in sexually produced brethren (Biometrika, vol.

,ppjv, male, and ToKOS, from Tlktecv, to beget), biological terms proposed by Leuckart and Eduard von Siebold to denote those parthenogenetic females which produce male young, while "thelytokous" and "thelytoky" would denote their producing female young.

They moult five times, becoming with each change of skin darker in colour; in about three weeks they become adult and capable of laying parthenogenetic eggs.

Cases of parthenogenetic reproduction, or reproduction without the intervention of the male, have been recorded in the case of two genera (Filistata and Tegenaria), and may be commoner than is usually supposed.

Doncaster (1906-1907) on the eggs of sawflies, the number of chromosomes is not reduced in parthenogenetic egg-nuclei, while, in eggs capable of fertilization, the usual reduction-divisions occur.

The suggestion requires further experimental testing, for which the case of the parthenogenetic production of a portion of the offspring, in such insects as the bee, offers a valuable opportunity for research.

Synonyms:

apomictic, asexual, agamic, nonsexual, agamous, agamogenetic,

Antonyms:

sexual, unisexual, sex, sexed, gender,