2024年4月2日 星期二

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The shipping of gametes and embryos around the world is a growing part of a booming fertility sector. Out of the estimated 2.5 million assisted reproduction cycles performed each year, around 100,000 involve the transport of frozen reproductive material.



Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. Hephaestus's Roman counterpart is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child.




Others might interpret her life’s journey differently, but a portrait this succinct relies on such sharp generalizations. Brevity exposes a writer’s attitudes; selection and emphasis — I’m thinking here especially of Willa Cather’s fiction — are everything. In a famous 1922 essay, “The Novel Démeublé,” she wrote: “Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed.”

Cather stated her credo of fiction most forcefully in her essay “The Novel Demeuble” (1922), meaning “The Unfurnished Novel.” The title refers to her idea that the best fiction does not merely “catalogue” the furniture of life—physical things, processes, and sensations—but selects such details carefully to “present [ ...

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parthenogenesis
/ˌpɑːθɪnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/
noun
BIOLOGY
  1. reproduction from an ovum without fertilization, especially as a normal process in some invertebrates and lower plants.
    "cyclic parthenogenesis is well displayed in aphids"
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Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur in a gamete (egg or sperm) without combining with ...




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