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What does parthenogenetic mean?

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  1. (biology) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis
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Arctic species of mayflies, scale insects, midges, caddisflies and other groups are known to be parthenogenetic.
Some make their hosts parthenogenetic, rendering the need for sexual reproduction irrelevant.
Multiplication by budding or by the parthenogenetic production of eggs is not known to occur.
It reportedly reproduces exclusively by parthenogenetic female gametes and fragmentation.
The parthenogenetic eggs, as in other Cladocera, develop directly, but the resting eggs give rise to larv of the nauplius type.
In parthenogenetic populations, traits historically involved in sexual reproduction are no longer under selection and potentially subject to such reduction.

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