Parthenogenesis vs Fragmentation - What's the difference?
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(biology)
# (biology, uncountable) Reproduction by the development of a single gamete (viz. an ovum or ovule) without fertilisation by a gamete of the opposite sex; compare metagenesis, heterogamy.
#* 2008 October 15, "Virgin Shark Gives Birth",
# (biology, uncountable, formerly) Asexual reproduction in toto ; agamogenesis.
# (biology, countable, rare) An instance or example of parthenogenesis.
(countable, and, uncountable) figurative uses of the biologic senses
* 1870 : , Among My Books'', series I, ''Shakespeare Once More ,
(theology) Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
* {{quote-book, 1927, James Samuel Stone, The cult of Santiago: traditions, myths, and pilgrimages, page=58
, passage=So one might reasonably be led to hold, for instance, that the parthenogenesis of Christ does not beget faith in Christ
* {{quote-book, 1966, Thomas F. O’Meara, Mary in Protestant and Catholic Theology, page=227
, passage=His theology offers four objections on dogmatic grounds commonly adduced by contemporary Protestant criticism to cast doubt on Mary’s parthenogenesis .}}
* {{quote-book, 1999, Carol V. Kaske, Spenser and Biblical poetics, page=177, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=QGP4cYLJlUEC&pg=PA177, isbn=0801436796
, passage=Christ’s parthenogenesis exalts woman. }}
??Deriving directly from Ancient Greek ; defined in the uncountable biologic senses only. * “
??Deriving from the (etyl) affixes ; defined in the uncountable biologic senses (as well as the figurative sense deriving thence) only. * The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
(computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
As nouns the difference between parthenogenesis and fragmentation
is that parthenogenesis is Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:fragmentation is the act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.parthenogenesis
English
Noun
(en-noun)AFP via Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
- Scientists say the birth is the second confirmed instance of a shark being conceived by parthenogenesis , a process in which an unfertilised egg develops into a new individual.
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- We may learn, to be sure, plenty of lessons from Shakespeare.?We are not likely to have kingdoms to divide, crowns foretold us by weird sisters, a father’s death to avenge, or to kill our wives from jealously?;?but Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and a loose-handed weakness of giving?;?Macbeth, how one sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal parthenogenesis , and that the key which unlocks forbidden doors to our will or passion leaves a stain on the hand, that may not be so dark as blood, but that will not out?;?Hamlet, that all the noblest gifts of person, temperament, and mind slip like sand through the grasp of an infirm purpose?;?Othello, that the perpetual silt of some one weakness, the eddies of a suspicious temper depositing their one impalpable layer after another, may build up a shoal on which an heroic life and an otherwise magnanimous nature may bilge and go to pieces.
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Usage notes
* Whereas this word’s biologic and figurative senses are properly understood as deriving from the prefix in its biologic-botanic sense (stressing an absence of fertilisation), the theologic sense can only be understood as employing the prefix in the original sense of “virgin”, since parthenogenetic offspring are always female.See also
* (wikipedia "parthenogenesis")References
* “parthenogenesis]” listed in the [second edition; 1989
??Deriving directly from Ancient Greek ; defined in the uncountable biologic senses only. * “
parthenogenesis, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' [Draft revision; Dec. 2008
??Deriving from the (etyl) affixes ; defined in the uncountable biologic senses (as well as the figurative sense deriving thence) only. *
