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asexual

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asexual
1. having no apparent sex or sex organs
2. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes, as in vegetative reproduction, fission, or budding

asexual [ā′seksh·ə·wəl]
(biology)
Not involving sex.
Exhibiting absence of sex or of functional sex organs.


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For example, an asexual being could not commit adultery.
He still bounds about the stage, still flashes that teasing bedroom-eye look, still manages to be both highly sexual and asexual at the same time.
The doubling of sex chromosomes that occurs in this kind of asexual reproduction creates males among reptiles.
 
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