(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.
Platonic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Platonical
(n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
Example Sentences:
(1) And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions.
(2) "A Platonic academy, or symposium," he says, "is a group of people sitting round a table discussing ideas, which is a great thing to do.
(3) All the people who Platon has photographed are used to being in control.
(4) Moretti has spoken previously of making criticism less like a Platonic academy, and more like a laboratory.
(5) Platon, born in 1968 in London, has won many international awards for his work.
(6) For some reason, no actual lake I visit ever measures up to the ideal platonic lake for which I yearn.
(7) Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, to 14 years in a penal colony, including time already served, meaning the pair will not be free for seven more years.
(8) And the platonic concept of a library can be a caravan with some books in it.
(9) Sage's major study of neo-Platonism and English poetry was uncompleted at the time of her death.
(10) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
(11) Yet for a fraction of a second Platon is the one with power.
(12) And the first rule is, you have to be platonic first.
(13) Ihave the deepest sympathy for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow unfortunate, Platon Lebedev .
(14) Earlier Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's co-defendant, angrily dismissed the Kremlin charges as "rotten".
(15) Platon Platon’s portrait of Ahmadinejad I had an idea that all our leaders are presented to us through a veil of propaganda.
(16) There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love.
(17) Platon Lebedev, another former executive, who was jailed by a Russian court on tax-evasion charges and was released this year, is another victor.
(18) Photograph: Platon for the Observer And then that's it.
(19) On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon , the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
(20) This article was corrected on 22 May: the Piraeus University economics professor is Platon Tinios, not Platos