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Definitions of apomixis in various dictionaries:
noun - any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization
Reproduction without meiosis or formation of gametes.
noun - a type of reproductive process
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In biology, the omission of sexual fusion in reproduction |
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May 20 2012 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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Reproduction without meiosis or formation of gametes. |
any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization |
Asexual reproduction in plants, in particular agamospermy. |
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In botany, apomixis was defined by Hans Winkler as replacement of the normal sexual reproduction by asexual reproduction, without fertilization. Its etymology is Greek for "away from" + "mixing". This definition notably does not mention meiosis. Thus "normal asexual reproduction" of plants, such as propagation from cuttings or leaves, has never been considered to be apomixis, but replacement of the seed by a plantlet or replacement of the flower by bulbils were categorized as types of apomixis. Apomictically produced offspring are genetically identical to the parent plant. * Some authors included all forms of asexual reproduction within apomixis, but that generalization of the term has since died out.In flowering plants, the term "apomixis" is commonly used in a restricted sense to mean agamospermy, i.e. clonal reproduction through seeds. Although agamospermy could theoretically occur in gymnosperms, it appears to be absent in that group.Apogamy is a related term that has had various mea |