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Polyembryony

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Polyembryony is the phenomenon of two or more embryos developing from a single fertilized egg. [1]

32 relations: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Armadillo, Botany, Braconidae, Bryozoa, Budding, Citrus, Cleavage (embryo), Competition, Cyclostomata, Dasypus, Dormancy, Dryinidae, Embryo, Encyrtidae, Gymnosperm, Hymenoptera, Invertebrate, Monoembryony, Nine-banded armadillo, Plant, Platygastridae, Programmed cell death, Scots pine, Seedling, Sexual reproduction, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Strepsiptera, Twin, University of Florida, Vertebrate, Zygote.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek FRS (24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

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Armadillo

Armadillos are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata with a leathery armour shell.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Braconidae

The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps.

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Bryozoa

Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.

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Budding

Budding is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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Cleavage (embryo)

In embryology, cleavage is the division of cells in the early embryo.

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Competition

Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.

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Cyclostomata

Cyclostomata is a group of agnathans that comprises the living jawless fishes: the lampreys and hagfishes.

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Dasypus

Dasypus is the only extant genus in the family Dasypodidae.

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Dormancy

Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped.

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Dryinidae

Dryinidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps.

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Embryo

An embryo is an early stage of development of a multicellular diploid eukaryotic organism.

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Encyrtidae

Encyrtidae is a large family of parasitic wasps, with some 3710 described species in about 455 genera.

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Gymnosperm

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes.

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Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Monoembryony

Monoembryony is the emergence of one and only one seedling from a seed.

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Nine-banded armadillo

The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), or the nine-banded, long-nosed armadillo, is a medium-sized mammal found in North, Central, and South America, making it the most widespread of the armadillos.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Platygastridae

The hymenopteran family Platygastridae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Platygasteridae) is a large group (over 1100 species) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly very small (1–2 mm), black, and shining, with elbowed antennae that have an eight-segmented flagellum.

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Programmed cell death

Programmed cell death (or PCD) is the death of a cell in any form, mediated by an intracellular program.

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Scots pine

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.

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Seedling

A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.

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Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a form of reproduction where two morphologically distinct types of specialized reproductive cells called gametes fuse together, involving a female's large ovum (or egg) and a male's smaller sperm.

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Single-nucleotide polymorphism

A single-nucleotide polymorphism, often abbreviated to SNP (plural), is a variation in a single nucleotide that occurs at a specific position in the genome, where each variation is present to some appreciable degree within a population (e.g. > 1%).

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Strepsiptera

The Strepsiptera (translation: "twisted wing"', giving rise to the insects' common name, twisted-wing parasites) are an endopterygote order of insects with nine extant families making up about 600 species.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).

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Zygote

A zygote (from Greek ζυγωτός zygōtos "joined" or "yoked", from ζυγοῦν zygoun "to join" or "to yoke") is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyembryony

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