Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only ; it is reproduction which does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction, or fertilization.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

If the parent star is a single star, then it may still be regarded as having an " A " designation, though the " A " is not normally written.

Those regions which when inherited from a single parent result in a discernible phenotype contain imprinted gene ( s ).

Earlier studies show us a higher risk with the factors of social and behavioral domains in young children with a single parent.

However, the variety of single parent families regarding gender of the main parent has rarely been taken into reason when understanding the relation between family and child's negative outcomes.

Religious memes pass down the generations from parent to child and across a single generation through the meme-exchange of proselytism.

This hierarchy of objects is maintained through delegation to an object's " parent " property, resulting in a form of single inheritance.

In graphical user interfaces, a multiple document interface or MDI is one whose windows reside under a single parent window.

Graphical computer applications with an IDE-style interface ( IDE ) are those whose child windows reside under a single parent window ( usually with the exception of modal windows ).

In contrast to ( MDI ) applications, which ordinarily allow a single tabbed interface for the parent window, applications with an IDE-style interface allow tabs for organizing one or more subpanes of the parent window.

Shirley Dean grew up in a single parent family, and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1952.

This contrasts with a multiple document interface, in which a single parent window is used to contain multiple nested child windows, with only the parent window having a menu or tool bar.

However, given the couple's separation and then divorce, Bullock continued the adoption of the baby, named Louis Bardo Bullock, as a single parent.

Halonen was a surprising candidate as she didn't represent many traditional values: She was known as a left-wing social democratic party member, who lived in a domestic partnership, was a single parent and had resigned from the national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

The results showed that White teenagers fare worse living in a cohabiting household than living in a single parent household.

A divorce may result in the parent and children moving to an area with a higher poverty rate and a poor education system all due to the financial struggles of a single parent.

* The Maintenance Security Law ( 1979 ), which introduced public advance payments for single parents “ not in receipt of maintenance payments from the liable parent .” These benefits were made payable up to 36 months, and private claims against a parent not meeting a maintenance liability were taken over by the state.

After fertilization, the single egg ruptures through the body wall and adheres to nearby sand particles ; the parent is able to rapidly heal the resulting wound.

An artistic revolution can be begun by a single artist, but unless that artist gains some understanding, he becomes an iconoclast.

At the point where they are united into a single being, man, the being, becomes actual, or real.

Photosynthesis becomes possible in this range as well, for similar reasons, as a single molecule of chlorophyll is excited by a single photon.

The noise travels around the loop and is amplified and filtered until very quickly it becomes a sine wave at a single frequency.

By substituting these three verbs, even without clarifying morality ( ought, shall, should, must ) or the actor ( s ) who do or did something, becomes / remains / equals makes clear what time frame of relationship is asserted, and disallows assuming one stable past / present / future timeline-known as single scenario planning or blind linearity and considered a grave error in risk analysis.

* 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game

The player becomes more likely to lose in a set number of iterations as he fails to win, and eventually his probability of winning will again equal the probability of winning a single toss, when only one toss is left: 6. 25 % in this instance.

* 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.

Niggle ends up discarding all his other artworks, or tacks them onto the main canvas, which becomes a single vast embodiment of his vision.

When the fitness of a single genotype becomes meaningless because of the high rate of mutations, the cloud as a whole or quasispecies becomes the natural unit of selection.

* 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

Nintendo Magazine System showed a preference for the multiplayer modes of the game and stated that while the " single player mode becomes dull quickly " the " two-player mode won't lose appeal ".

For certain proportions an alloy becomes eutectic and melts at a single temperature ; non-eutectic alloys have markedly different solidus and liquidus temperature, and within that range they exist as a paste of solid particles in a melt of the lower-melting phase.

With isolated speech single words are used, therefore it becomes easier to recognize the speech.

The goals are to manage tigers as a single metapopulation, the dispersal of which between core refuges can help maintain genetic, demographic, and ecological integrity, and to ensure that species and habitat conservation becomes mainstreamed into the rural development agenda.

Polluting water may be the biggest single misuse of water ; to the extent that a pollutant limits other uses of the water, it becomes a waste of the resource, regardless of benefits to the polluter.

This design utilizes a single piece of material and becomes flexible by removal of material along a spiral path resulting in a curved flexible beam of helical shape.

* Prohibition on remarriage after divorce: A man may not remarry a wife he has previously divorced if she remarries someone else then becomes single again ()

** CISC — It becomes either a single instruction: add a, b, c, or more typically: move a, reg1 ; add reg1, b, c as most machines are limited to two memory operands.

This becomes increasingly important as large-capacity drives lengthen the time needed to recover from the failure of a single drive.

A single cell driving a load can't suffer from polarity reversal, because there are no other cells to reverse-charge it when it becomes discharged.

* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).

In urban archaeology this grid becomes invaluable for implementing single context recording.