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In the whiptail lizards, only females are born generation after generation. There are no males. How is this possible?

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In the whiptail lizards, only females are born generation after generation. There are no males. How is this possible?

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The whiptail lizard/turkey shows parthenogenesis, the phenomenon in which the female gamete undergoes development without fertilisation into a new individual; in these animals it develops into a female individual.

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