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Results for “asexual reproduction”

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  • asexual reproduction

    Mode of reproduction which does not involve fertilisation whereby offspring derive from a single parent and inherit genes only from that parent. Known in the Amazon Molly, Poecilia formosa, and some other fish species.

  • reproduction

    Production of offspring via a sexual or asexual process.

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  • clone

    Specimen descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor with natural examples normally resulting from asexual reproductive events. Produced via parthenogenesis in some fishes.

  • parthenogenesis

    Method of asexual reproduction by which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual exhibited by certain fishes.

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