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What does apomixis mean?

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Noun
  1. (botany) plant reproduction without fertilization
  2. (botany) plant reproduction without fertilization, meiosis, or the production of gametes
  3. (zoology) animal reproduction in which the egg cell did not undergo meiosis or fertilization
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Five individuals were assigned to a fifth treatment to investigate the possibility of apomixis.
Plants also show great ranges in self-fertility from obligate outcrossing to complete selfing to apomixis.
Our findings indicate that in general haplodiploidy and automixis should be more successful than amphimixis or apomixis.
No experiments were conducted to test whether or not the high fruit set observed in this species was due to apomixis.
Mutations of these hybrids may have given rise to further microspecies stabilized by apomixis.
Furthermore, it can be shown to hold for PGE with male somatic diploidy and for polyploid apomixis as well.

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