In Greek, this term means “virgin birth,” which is an accurate way to describe how asexual animals continue their survival. Animals that reproduce using parthenogenesis do not need sperm or a ...

Asexual animals arose from diversified sexually ... which consists only of females who reproduce by parthenogenesis. They appear to be the only known unisexual reptile. Clones generally hit ...

She can reproduce the old-fashioned way, by mating with a male and laying eggs. Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at ...