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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...