It has the tongue-twisting name "parthenogenesis." Kiessling: Parthenogenesis is the term that's applied to an egg that activates spontaneously on its own. This is relatively common in women.

Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

47, No. 557, May, 1913 Studies of Natural and Artifical Parthen... Studies of Natural and Artifical Parthenogenesis in the Genus Nicotiana This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

6. The development of the embryo in parthenogenetic material is the same as found in normal material. 7. Parthenogenesis is becoming fixed in Thalictrum.

Reproduction in animals varies from species to species. Some types of reproduction, like parthenogenesis, are more unusual than others. This reproductive method requires only one individual rather ...

Although recent experiments in the Physiological Laboratory have produced six baby rabbits without regular copulation, there is no expectation that the experiments will ultimately have an effect ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The findings contrast with previous studies of cloning in animals. Ryder, for one, has studied parthenogenesis among condors, but in that case the parthenogenesis ...

The mechanics of parthenogenesis in lizards can be surprisingly complex. Typically, the female’s egg undergoes a process similar to cloning, where chromosomes double and then split, creating an ...

Geneticist Aarathi Prasad explores the natural phenomenon known as parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Thanks to a breakthrough in DNA profiling, scientists have found that some species, including ...

Haploid parthenogenesis occurs when females produce haploid male offspring from unfertilized eggs. When offspring are born, they look almost — if not completely — identical to their parent.