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Wasn’t this also like the inciting incident for the original jurassic park movie?

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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.

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I’m still confused on the difference

Edit: thank you to everyone who replied, I understand the difference now

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Jurassic Park’s version is still sexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction.

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Parthenogenesis - egg just becomes embryo, no male required

Jurassic Park - one individual turned from female to male and started making babies

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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.

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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

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