parthenogenesis
/par-thuh-noh-jen-uh-sis/US // ˌpær θə noʊˈdʒɛn ə sɪs //UK // (ˌpɑːθɪnəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs) //
孤雌生殖,孤雌生殖作用,孤雌生殖术,孤雌繁殖
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Biology.
- : development of an egg without fertilization.
Examples
Normal parthenogenesis belong equally to summary and to complicated animals, to wheel-animals and to bees.
This provoked parthenogenesis is neither more nor less interesting than the normal.
Human parthenogenesis is less absurd: it offers an order, and promiscuity is a disorder.
The same tendency reaches its logical conclusion in the parthenogenesis of insects.
In 1849 Professor Owen, in his treatise on "Parthenogenesis," put forward another conception.
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