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What does unfertilized mean?

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This process is known as parthenogenesis, where unfertilized eggs develop into embryos without sperm.
Occasionally, however, a mutation occurs that allows fruit to develop from unfertilized female flowers, a process known as parthenocarpy.
Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis.
During copulation, the female transfers unfertilized eggs to the male's ventral surface, where fertilization takes place.
In parthenogenesis, an unfertilized egg can start dividing and still produce a normal offspring.
In these mutants, the meiotic products remain in interphase in unfertilized eggs and undergo inappropriate DNA replication.

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