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Agamogenesis

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

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Blastogenesis 76% connected

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

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Budding 76% connected

of Bud

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Fission 76% connected

A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.

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Fissiparity 76% connected

Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.

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Gemmation 76% connected

The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity.…

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Monogenesis 76% connected

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.

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Parthenogenesis 76% connected

The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element…

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Parthenogeny 76% connected

Same as Parthenogenesis.

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Pullulation 76% connected

A germinating, or budding.

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Sporulation 76% connected

The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.

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Reproduction 76% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

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