Answer:
a. parthenogenesis
Explanation:
the development of the unreduced, unfertilized egg into an embryo, constitutes the second step of the apomictic process (1, 2). In Pennisetum squamulatum, apomixis is transmitted by a physically large, hemizygous, nonrecombining chromosomal region, the apospory-specific genomic region (ASGR) (3).
