Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An embryo generated through parthenogenesis, occurring in certain plants and invertebrate animals.
- noun An unfertilized, usually mammalian egg cell that has been artificially activated with chemicals so that it divides.
- adjective Being, derived, or resulting from a parthenote.
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- noun embryology a cell generated through
parthenogenesis
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- noun a cell resulting from parthenogenesis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek parthenos, virgin + (zyg)ote.]
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Examples
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A "parthenote" results when an egg divides without using sperm (no fertilization) and can yield "parthenogenetic" stem cells that have similar medical potential as embryonic stem cells to create various human tissues for therapy yet have the additional medical advantage of allowing immune-matching to reduce the chance of rejection - a significant potential problem with the use of embryonic stem cells.
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This evidence is presented in a recently published paper entitled: "Equivalence of conventionally-derived and parthenote-derived human embryonic stem cells" published in PLoS
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