PARTHENOGENESIS occurs naturally in several orders of insects, and can conveniently be classified according to the sex of the offspring which develop from the unfertilized egg: (1) arrhenotoky ...

He has been studying virgin births, known scientifically as parthenogenesis, for 11 years. Dr Booth analysed the foetus and found that it was more than 99.9 % genetically identical to its mother ...

Geneticist Aarathi Prasad explores the natural phenomenon known as parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Thanks to a breakthrough in DNA profiling, scientists have found that some species, including ...

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Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

The discovery that condors are capable of virgin births - formally called parthenogenesis or asexual reproduction - surprised scientists. Virgin births have been recorded in other bird species ...

The process is known as parthenogenesis, which is Greek for "virgin birth." It's a form of asexual reproduction in which the production of offspring occurs in the absence of any male genetic ...