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Ascidian

Ascidiacea Blainville 1824

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Ascidiacea (Ascidian) is a class of tunicates. There are 2947 species of Ascidian, in 170 genera and 25 families. They have sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction.

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953
  • Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.
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  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019954
  • Definition: Capable of the biological process in which new individuals are produced by either a single cell or a group of cells, in the absence of any sexual process.
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