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sexual reproduction being most common. In asexual reproduction, the planarian ... diploid chromosomes and existence in both asexual and sexual strains. Recent ...

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods ...

Both sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction are found in Rotifera ... of each gene, suggesting a long term asexual evolutionary history (Welch ...

that have only been observed undergoing asexual reproduction. ... Fungi may reproduce sexually or asexually. In asexual reproduction ...

wild. It is maintained in cultivation by asexual propagation or it may be ... Cultivars that are propagated by asexual means such as dividing, cuttings ...

==Sexual version asexual reproduction== Reproduction#Asexual vs. sexual ... some groups of organisms that practice asexual reproduction—such as ...

The sexes in sea anemones are separate. Both sexual and asexual reproduction may occur. In sexual reproduction, males release sperm, which stimulates ...

Asexual and sexual reproduction can be found in sipunculans, although asexual reproduction is uncommon. Most species are dioecious, with only ...

have life cycles that alternate between asexual polyps (the body as a vase ... by anthozoans, including production of asexual clones by fission (in longitudinal ...

includes single-celled forms (yeasts) and asexual species. Basidiomycota commonly ... unicellular and multicellular, sexual and asexual, and terrestrial and aquatic ...

Asexual reproduction of sponges is through budding (formation of a new organism by the protrusion of part of the adult organism) or fragmentation ...

vivax (malaria parasite) completes its asexual part of life cycle in people ... for the completion of larval stage, asexual reproduction, and for transmission ...

Starfish are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction, with individual starfish being male or female. Fertilization takes place externally ...

and regrow the next year and as a means of asexual reproduction. Most true tubers can reproduce the plants vegetatively, serving as genetic clones ...

The most common mode of vegetative growth in yeast is asexual reproduction by budding or fission (Balasubramanian et al. 2004). In binary fission ...

certain modern usages it also takes on a fully asexual sense, rather than the classical sense in which sexual drives are (often) sublimated for the sake ...

=== Asexual reproduction === In December 2001, a pup was born from ... group in which the phenomenon of asexual reproduction has not been ...

Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum, widely cultivated for their edible, bell-shaped fruits, which ...

sense appears in the Rg Veda, and in decidedly asexual terms. Here kama is the first movement of the ineffable Absolute toward form, the first desire ...

Cnidaria have life cycles that alternate between asexual polyps (the body as a vase shaped form), and sexual, free-swimming forms called medusae (singular ...

Wyndham Ketton-Cremer have interpreted him as asexual. ==Legacy== [[Image:Strawberry Hill Illustrated London News 1842.jpg|thumb|250px|Strawberry ...

to produce new gamonts. Multiple rounds of asexual reproduction between sexual generations is not uncommon in benthic forms (Sen Gupta 1999) ...

have life cycles that alternate between asexual polyps (the body as a vase ... and eventually becomes a coral head by asexual budding and growth to create ...

vivax (malaria parasite) completes its asexual part of life cycle in people ... for the completion of larval stage, asexual reproduction, and for transmission ...

Many animals are also capable of asexual reproduction. This may take place through parthenogenesis, where fertile eggs are produced without mating ...

accounts that describe Hephaestus as the product of asexual reproduction on the part of his mother—specifically, that Hera became jealous when Zeus ...

as heterosexual, homosexual, and even as asexual. He appears to have cultivated a persona that did not exude sexuality, possibly to convey the ...

A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein that is found in cells, with each chromosome being a very long, continuous, single ...

A lichen is a composite organism composed of a fungus (the mycobiont) in a symbiotic relationship with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont ...

(Huxley 1992). Apomixis (also called apogamy) is asexual reproduction, without fertilization. Apomictically produced seeds are genetically identical ...

Asexual reproduction by binary fission is the primary mode of reproduction ... Due to the possibility of its cloning itself by asexual propagation ...

species that have only been observed undergoing asexual reproduction. Members of the Basidiomycota, commonly known as the club fungi or basidiomycetes ...

the cycle of fertilization. This is a means of asexual reproduction, and the genetically identical units can lead to the formation of clonal populations. ...

archaic stereotypes of women as "delicate, asexual creatures" who require special protection.Feminists for Free Speech, [http://www.ffeusa ...

she has been described as deliberately assuming an asexual or male persona in order to pursue her interests in African exploration, which was a male ...

Banana is the common name for any of the very large, tree-like, herbaceous plants comprising the genus Musa of the flowering plant family Musaceae ...

his awkwardness with women) or "simply asexual." Heath had been expected to marry childhood friend Kay Raven, who reportedly tired of ...

Hera, irritated by her husband's seemingly asexual reproduction, decided to make herself pregnant. Eventually, she succeeded in giving birth ...