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What does apomixis mean?

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  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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Another example is the major impact that understanding apomixis would have on plant breeding.
Using molecular markers, apomixis was shown to have arisen frequently and independently during the evolution of this agamic complex.
Plants also show great ranges in self-fertility from obligate outcrossing to complete selfing to apomixis.
Therefore it can be assumed that the seeds analyzed in this study were the result of neither selfing nor apomixis.
No experiments were conducted to test whether or not the high fruit set observed in this species was due to apomixis.
Five individuals were assigned to a fifth treatment to investigate the possibility of apomixis.

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