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minus-squareCaboose12000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoWasn’t this also like the inciting incident for the original jurassic park movie?
minus-squareStalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoNo, in Jurassic Park African frogs are used as the genetic gap filler, these frogs (and therefore the dinosaurs) are able to change sex in same sex environents
minus-squareKhanzarate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoNah. That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential. So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
minus-squareCaboose12000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI’m still confused on the difference
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoJurassic Park’s version is still sexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction.
minus-squarelakemalcom10@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoParthenogenesis - egg just becomes embryo, no male required Jurassic Park - one individual turned from female to male and started making babies
minus-squarehomesnatch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoOne was direct development of an egg into an embryo, the other was conversion of an animal from one sex to another to facilitate mating.
Wasn’t this also like the inciting incident for the original jurassic park movie?
No, in Jurassic Park African frogs are used as the genetic gap filler, these frogs (and therefore the dinosaurs) are able to change sex in same sex environents
Nah.
That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.
So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
I’m still confused on the difference
Jurassic Park’s version is still sexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction.
Parthenogenesis - egg just becomes embryo, no male required
Jurassic Park - one individual turned from female to male and started making babies
One was direct development of an egg into an embryo, the other was conversion of an animal from one sex to another to facilitate mating.