What does unfertilized mean?

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In these mutants, the meiotic products remain in interphase in unfertilized eggs and undergo inappropriate DNA replication.
Next, they took an unfertilized egg from a second sheep and removed its DNA, carefully sucking it out with a thin glass tube called a pipette.
Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis.
In most ants, females are typically produced by sexual reproduction, while males develop from unfertilized eggs.
This tactic seems risky, because not all ovules get fertilized, and the unfertilized ones abort without storing nutrients.
During copulation, the female transfers unfertilized eggs to the male's ventral surface, where fertilization takes place.

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