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Zoo celebrates virgin birth of Komodo dragons
Scientists unveiled five squirmy black and yellow Komodo dragons Wednesday that were the product of a virgin birth, predicting that the hatchlings offered hope for breeding the endangered species.
Flora, the Komodo dragon, has produced five hatchlings although a male has never been close to her, the proud staff at the Chester Zoo said.
When fully grown to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing about 300 pounds (135 kilograms), they’ll be capable of eating a whole pig or deer at one sitting, hooves and all.
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The first two documented cases, eh? This may sound cheesy, but it reminds me a bit of Jurassic Park. When in an all-female (or solitary) enviroment, they adapt in order to breed. Pretty nifty.
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Oh just great. Now we'll be worshipping lizards and offering up sacrificial ham sandwiches in no time.
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There are some lizards (geckos, I think) on Easter Island (I think) that are known to reproduce asexually in the absence of males. However since there's no male to provide the added DNA, the offspring are genetically identical to the mother.
In other words, they're all female. This does very little in terms of building a breeding population... (Not to mention establishing genetic diversity within the species to maintain evolutionary fitness.)
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Odd, I thought gender based on chromosomes, not DNA.
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if there's no male, where are you gonna get your Y chromosome from?
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You just break off one of the X's legs.
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"The body and toxic spit of DragoChrist"
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Originally Posted by Dakar² 
Odd, I thought gender based on chromosomes, not DNA.
From wikipedia: 'A chromosome is a single large macromolecule of DNA, and is the basic 'unit' of DNA in a cell.'.
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Originally Posted by analogika
Dakar is confusing me.
I would never purposely obfuscate the subject.
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Originally Posted by Dakar²
I would never purposely obfuscate the subject.
You used a large word on purpose.
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That's not a large word. This is a large word.
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