Apomixis
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In botany, apomixis is asexual development of seed or embryo without fertilization.
Vegetative apomixis in Poa bulbosa; bulbils form instead of flowers
Caribbean agave producing plantlets on the old flower stem.
Parthenogenesis
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Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which the embryo develops directly without need for fertilization. In animals, parthenogenesis means the development of an embryo from an u
Apomixis
…misinformation (that the egg cell in a meiotically unreduced gametophyte can never be fertilized) attempted to reform the terminology to match the term parthenogenesis as it is used in zoology, and this continues to cause much confusion. Agamospermy occurs mainly in two forms: In gametophytic apomixis, the embryo…
The asexual, all-female whiptail species Aspidoscelis neomexicanus (center), which reproduces via parthenogenesis, is shown flanked by two sexual species having males, A. inornatus (left) and A. tigris (right), which naturally hybridized to form A. neomexicanus.
A young Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis, produced through parthenogenesis. Komodo dragons can produce offspring through both sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis.
Induction of parthenogenesis in pigs