Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Reproduction without meiosis or formation of gametes.
Wiktionary
- n. botany plant reproduction without fertilization
- n. botany plant reproduction without fertilization, meiosis, or the production of gametes
- n. zoology animal reproduction in which the egg cell did not undergo meiosis or fertilization
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization
Etymologies
- apo- + Greek mixis, a mingling (from mignunai, mig-, to mingle; see meik- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word apomixis is from the Greek apo, with the short a, meaning ‘without,’ and mixis, meaning ‘mingling.’”
“My good friend Richard Jefferson introduced me to the idea of apomixis and the ways that it might someday revolutionize agriculture.”
“Well, Minister, they call it the race to find a supergene that controls asexual reproduction in plants, known as apomixis.”
“He was a world authority on the natural phenomenon known as apomixis, by which plants reproduce asexually.”
“His team experimented with a type of asexual reproduction called apomixis, using the small mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana -- normally a sexual reproducer”
“Research aimed at transferring the "apomixis" gene from a wild grass into rice could result in farmers being able to save seed year after year from hybrid plants.”
“It is a type of sexual breeding, in contrast to asexual systems such as apomixis.”
“The occurrence of apomixis in the Pomoideæ, and the high frequency of diploid seedlings, 23 out of 39, in a family of pears we raised from crossing the diploid variety Fertility with the triploid variety Beurre Diel, suggested that they may have been apomictically, or in part apomictically, reproduced.”
“It will be argued that the success of apomicts in the long run depends critically on their ability to cross with sexual relatives and that this enables apomixis to survive much longer time periods than generally thought.”
Dandelions, acquired characteristics, and creationism - The Panda's Thumb
“Here is a paper on the evolutionary implication of apomixis in dandelions and skeleton weed.”
Dandelions, acquired characteristics, and creationism - The Panda's Thumb
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common words
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