asexual reproduction
reproduction, as budding, fission, or spore formation, not involving the union of gametes.
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How to use asexual reproduction in a sentence
She and her colleagues found key differences in head growth during regeneration and budding, the form of asexual reproduction used by hydra and some other animals such as corals.
Hydras can regrow their heads. Scientists want to know how they do it. | Kate Baggaley | December 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn the first place, we do not know whether parthenogenesis may not finally settle down into complete asexual reproduction.
Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2) | August WeismannPearson (Grammar of Science, p. 373) points out that variation does occur in asexual reproduction.
Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population | George B. Louis ArnerSexual reproduction by oogonia and antheridia; asexual reproduction by zoospores or conidia.
Mycelium well developed; sexual reproduction by zygospores; asexual reproduction by sporangia and conidia.
Among animals as among plants, asexual reproduction is very common.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) | J. Arthur Thomson
Scientific definitions for asexual reproduction
[ ā-sĕk′shōō-əl ]
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Cultural definitions for asexual reproduction
[ (ay-sek-shooh-uhl) ]
The kind of reproduction in which it is not necessary to have two parents to produce offspring. The reproduction of single-celled organisms through fission, and the production of spores in some plants and plantlike organisms, are examples of asexual reproduction.
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