(a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We hypothesize that a dynamic complex of sexual and clonal fishes appear to participate in a feedback process that maintains genetic diversity in both the sexual and asexual components.
(2) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(3) Secondary echinococcosis generates by asexual regressive metamorphosis of larval element intro larval forms.
(4) However, differences between the two groups were statistically significant only for P. falciparum asexual forms.
(5) The intermediate cells divide asexually by endodyogeny giving rise, on the one hand, to another population of intermediate cells, and on the other--to merozoites which divide no longer.
(6) A concentration of 3 x 10(-9) M halofantrine was lethal to both asexual parasites and gametocytes.
(7) Light is necessary for asexual sporulation in Aspergillus nidulans but will elicit conidiation only if irradiation occurs during a critical period of development.
(8) In the other 17 cases followed up to day 21, six were found again with asexual parasites between day 9 and day 14 and a seventh on day 21.
(9) Improved methods were developed for the determination of reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione disulfide (GSSG), and protein-glutathione disulfide (PSSG) and applied to determine the glutathione status at various stages of the asexual life cycle for the band strain of Neurospora crassa.
(10) A large variety of fungi are known to produce asexual spores known as arthroconidia.
(11) The selection equations for sexual and asexual reproduction of genotypes corresponding to mixed strategies are analysed.
(12) These results are consistent with genetic data suggesting that stuA gene function is required from the very earliest events of asexual reproduction until completion of conidiophore development, but is not specifically required for differentiation of conidia.
(13) Protoplasts were prepared from asexual spores that harbor one or two mutations in the structural gene for tryptophan synthetase.
(14) They also occurred in the immunocytic systems after the first and during the second asexual multiplication and during the relatively late cystic phase of the parasite in the brain.
(15) Five days after therapy with 600 mg chloroquine base, the asexual parasitemia in the American increased 40-fold, but cleared after treatment with 1,500 mg chloroquine base.
(16) We have tested the effect of 2DG on Candida albicans to see if it could be used to obtain GalK- mutants in this diploid asexual yeast.
(17) (owl monkey) is one of the WHO recommended experimental models for Plasmodium falciparum blood stage infection, especially relevant for vaccination studies with asexual blood stage antigens of this parasite.
(18) Cyclic parthenogens have made the transition to obligate asexuality with high frequency, but there is little evidence to support the argument (Williams, 1975) that such shifts result from the relaxation of the short-term selection pressures supposedly necessary to sustain the sexual phase of the life cycle.
(19) Malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium spend much of their asexual life cycle inside the erythrocytes of their vertebrate hosts.
(20) We established and analyzed human T lymphocyte clones induced by crude Plasmodium falciparum antigens of schizont-enriched asexual blood stages.
Gemma
Definition:
(n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
(n.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once the effect of the 8% annual growth in debt interest payments and rising spending on unemployment benefit are stripped out, spending across government departments will have to fall by an average of 2.3% a year in real terms, said IFS economist Gemma Tetlow.
(2) Journalist Gemma Briggs, 34, did this with her first child, born in March 2010.
(3) The results show that the rate of gemmae formation is higher in self irradiated samples; the statistical significance of the results is discussed.
(4) Honey admitted that her daughter, Gemma, seven, recently wrote "a baby" on her shopping list.
(5) Someone like Gemma Arterton [Tamara Drewe] is so beautiful, and I know she has had incredible pressure put on her by Hollywood, and it is magnificent for someone like her to stand up and say, 'You know what, this is my shape'.
(6) Gemma Tetlow, a senior IFS analyst, said it still raised significant questions about how much money would be available for everyday budgeting.
(7) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
(8) Created by real-life mates Gemma Cairney, Georgie Okell and Georgia LA, it's a combination of interviews, bands and debates, with guests ranging from Richard Branson to No More Page 3's Lucy-Anne Holmes.
(9) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
(10) Gemma Ellis, 28, a children's charity worker, has been "passionate about women's rights" since primary school.
(11) Abbott has "sparked amusement and risked criticism" - report Jessica Marszalek, Gemma Jones, Lanai Scarr, Lauren Novak and David Mills.
(12) Gemma Plumb, a forecaster with Meteogroup, said: "Everywhere has seen strong winds today.
(13) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gemma Middleton fears her children’s opportunities will be limited We’ve lived here in Spain for seven years with my two children, 19 and 14. they were both born in the UK and none of us are eligible for Spanish citizenship because you have to have been here 10 years.
(15) The venom from the spider Araneus gemma contains an inhibitor of physiologic glutamate receptors and of glutamate binding sites in brain synaptic membranes.
(16) It took half an hour for Ji to get a sight at goal, and even then she was harried enough to shoot over following Gemma Davison’s through ball.
(17) Down the hall, another of Thornberry's caseworkers, Gemma Pritchard, 24, is talking to an Eritrean couple whose 16-year-old nephew was conscripted, deserted, and is now a refugee in Sudan; they want him to come and live with them.
(18) That’s when everything comes together – innovation, customer insight, creativity, communications and sales – and you get to demonstrate how these different elements work together, to create value and growth for a business,” says Gemma Greaves, MD of the Marketing Society, a networking club for marketing directors.
(19) The first episode, which features Jones, comedian Paul Foot and The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins, makes ITV’s Loose Women look like a WI meeting.
(20) Second-year individuals of Gemma gemma also are randomly distributed, but its total population is aggregated because of its ovoviviparous habit.