Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The development of an embryo that contains chromosomes from only the male parent.
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- noun
male orpaternal apomixis , involvingfusion of the male and femalegametes and replacement of the femalenucleus by the male nucleus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization
Etymologies
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andro- + genesis
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Examples
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PNAS introduced me to a brand new one: androgenesis, in which a species reproduces using only the DNA from sperm.
Ars Technica John Timmer 2011
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He suspects that androgenesis - the technical name for father-only reproduction - is responsible.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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Corley-Smith GE, Brandhorst BP (1999) Preservation of endangered species and populations: a role for genome banking, somatic cell cloning, and androgenesis?
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(et qua te ducit via dirige gressum, said Venus) androgenesis*.
Farmboyz / Perge Modo Father Tony of the Farmboyz 2008
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