ASEXUAL


Meaning of ASEXUAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

reproduction

The same pattern of asexual reproduction occurs in water fleas, aphids and even a few lizards.

We can not, then, say that asexual reproduction is cloning.

But here is a form of asexual reproduction that does not lead to cloning.

Moreover, with strictly asexual reproduction , mutations will inevitably accumulate.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alpine flowers are often among the most asexual of flowers.

Breeders of asexual plants must wait for the inventions to accumulate slowly within the same lineage.

But she was not juxtaposed against an asexual image of respectability.

Fat women are defined as undesirable, asexual , maternal, sexually desperate, rampant or repressed.

Reproduction can also be accomplished by asexual subdivision of polyps, each polyp dividing to form two.

Thus, grass grows asexual runners to propagate locally but commits its sexually produced seeds to the wind to travel farther.

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