Tardigrade Family

In many tardigrade populations there are males, females, juveniles and eggs. There are some populations that only have females, juveniles and eggs.  This is a phenomenon called parthenogenesis where the females can lay unfertilized eggs that grow up to be clones of the original female and become functional adults.

~Ella

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