Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The development of an embryo without the occurrence of fertilization, especially in plants.
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- noun botany plant
reproduction withoutfertilization - noun botany plant
reproduction withoutfertilization ,meiosis , or the production ofgametes - noun zoology animal
reproduction in which the egg cell did not undergomeiosis orfertilization
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- noun any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word apomixis is from the Greek apo, with the short a, meaning ‘without,’ and mixis, meaning ‘mingling.’
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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He was a world authority on the natural phenomenon known as apomixis, by which plants reproduce asexually.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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My good friend Richard Jefferson introduced me to the idea of apomixis and the ways that it might someday revolutionize agriculture.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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Well, Minister, they call it the race to find a supergene that controls asexual reproduction in plants, known as apomixis.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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His team experimented with a type of asexual reproduction called apomixis, using the small mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana -- normally a sexual reproducer
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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.
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It is a type of sexual breeding, in contrast to asexual systems such as apomixis.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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"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."
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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 2007
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Here is a paper on the evolutionary implication of apomixis in dandelions and skeleton weed.
Dandelions, acquired characteristics, and creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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