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deuterotokous

deuterotokous adjective: relating to deuterotoky.

Adjective

deuterotokous (not comparable)

  1. Relating to deuterotoky.
    • In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative...

Questions about deuterotokous

What does deuterotokous mean?
Deuterotokous means relating to deuterotoky.
What part of speech is deuterotokous?
Deuterotokous is an adjective.

Words near deuterotokous in the dictionary

  1. deuterostomians
  2. deuterostomy
  3. deuterothematic
  4. deuterotheme
  5. deuterothemes
  6. deuterotokous
  7. deuterotoky
  8. deuterotonic
  9. deuteroxide
  10. deuteroxides
  11. deuterozooid

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