(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.
Nonsexual
Definition:
(a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest incidence lies among school-age children and might indicate a nonsexual route of chlamydial infection.
(2) Anti-HIV-1-positive hemophiliacs had not transmitted to their nonsexual household contacts before study entry and did not do so subsequently, indicating that the risk from even close nonsexual contact is extremely low.
(3) Relationships between sexual attitudes and the drawing of nonsexual body parts were generally not significant.
(4) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.
(5) According to the model, hostile childhood experiences affect involvement in delinquency, leading to aggression through two paths: (a) hostile attitudes and personality, which result in coerciveness both in sexual and nonsexual interactions, and (b) sexual promiscuity, which, especially in interaction with hostility, produces sexual aggression.
(6) Case studies suggest that nonsexually abused children can manifest an increase in erotic behavior on the basis of unusually intense but nonabusive sexual experiences or as part of a compulsion.
(7) We conclude that the provision of FPC to nonsexually active and sexually active teens does not appear to promote the onset of sexual activity significantly among the non-sexually active group, although it significantly increases contraceptive use among the sexually active group.
(8) Ten nonsexual measures were significantly correlated with sexual activity.
(9) We also found differences in acceptance of nonsexual aggression and in subjects' beliefs that they might actually use force against women.
(10) However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common.
(11) No evidence exists for direct contact spread through shaking hands and nonsexual touching.
(12) The results showed that in none of the countries did rape increase more than nonsexual violent crimes.
(13) The presence or absence of various sexual and nonsexual anatomical features, as well as length and width measurements, were assessed in the drawing of nudes by 17 male and 23 female undergraduates.
(14) The disease may be caused by sexually or nonsexually transmitted organisms.
(15) This discussion of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) covers the incidence of AIDS in Europe and the US, the means of spread, the pattern of incidence of aids within the population, prevalence of specific antibodies, heterosexual transmission, AIDS and HTLV-III infection in Central Africa, control of spread of the infection (public education, counseling, treating for antibodies to HTLV-III, control of nonsexual transmismission, and surveillanc); and confidentiality and other social issues.
(16) This study confirms that sexual activity is an important determinant of CMV infection in both white and black women; however, the relative contributions of sexual and nonsexual transmission of CMV apparently vary and require further investigation.
(17) Similar fate maps are obtained using data from gynandromorphs and from marked Y chromosome (nonsexually dimorphic) mosaics.
(18) Transmission to nonsexual household contacts has appeared to be rare.
(19) Nonsexual transmission, although possible, is far less likely.
(20) The sex steroids exert profound effects on the function of many nonsexual organs; particularly the skin, bone, liver, salivary glands, and oral tissues.