Definitionn. human conception without fertilization by a man
Last update: June 25, 2015
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(From Cheshire's Bees and Bee-keeping, Scientific and Practical.) Huber's hive was defective in many respects; the parting of each frame, thus letting loose the whole colony, caused much trouble at times, but it remained the only movable-comb hive till 1838, when Dr Dzierzon - whose theory of parthenogenesis has made his name famous - devised a box-hive with a loose top-bar on which the bees built their combs and a movable side or door, by means of which the frames could be lifted out for inspection. [Please select]
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Parthenogenesis: reproduction by direct growth of germs from egg-cells without fertilization by the male element: as in plant lice, gall wasps, etc. [Please select]
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Parthenogenesis is no longer wonderful; in fact, the wonder is that it should not oftener occur. [Please select]
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Owen accounts for parthenogenesis, for propagation by self-division during successive generations, and for the repairs of injuries. [Please select]
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Bischoff as quoted by von Siebold "Ueber Parthenogenesis" 'Sitzung der math.' [Please select]
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{3} Some years of silence followed these revelations; but soon a German clergyman, Dzierzon, discovered parthenogenesis, _i. [Please select]
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Some zoologists are therefore of the opinion that the development of the gemmule is an instance of parthenogenesis--that is to say of an organism arising from an egg that has not been fertilized. [Please select]
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We see something of the same kind in certain cases of parthenogenesis, that is, when the male element is wholly excluded; for M. [Please select]
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