What is the meaning of Parthenogenesis?
Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:
- (An instance of) reproduction by the development of a single gamete (an ovum or ovule) without fertilisation by a gamete of the opposite sex; compare monogenesis, metagenesis, and heterogamy.
- Asexual reproduction in toto; agamogenesis.
(An instance of) reproduction by the development of a single gamete (an ovum or ovule) without fertilisation by a gamete of the opposite sex; compare monogenesis, metagenesis, and heterogamy.
Asexual reproduction in toto; agamogenesis.
figurative uses of the biological senses
Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
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