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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That type of parthenogenesis in which the unfertilized eggs produce males and females: contrasted with
homoparthenogenesis , or the production of only one sex from unfertilized eggs. Parthenogenetic female animals which produce both males and females are calledsexupara . Seenormal parthenogenesis andsexupara . - noun Mixed parthenogenesis, or the alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic generations. See
normal parthenogenesis .
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