HEEEDITY 



See Fig. 49, left column. The eggs are, so far 

 as we can discover, all of a single type. They 



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FIG. 49. Diagram of sex-determination in parthenogenesis. 

 First row, nuclear condition of the parthenogenetic mother; 

 second row, of her eggs when they develop without reduction, 

 after forming a single polar cell; third row, condition of the 

 eggs after complete maturation the fertilized egg in each 

 case produces a male; fourth row, nuclear condition of the 

 fertilized egg, always a female. 



undergo maturation in the manner already de- 

 scribed, the chromosomes being reduced to the 



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