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Development of an organism from female gamete/egg without involving fertilization is

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Adventive embryony

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Parthenogenesis.

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Parthenocarpy

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Polyembryony

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The correct option is B Parthenogenesis.
Adventive embryony is the development of an embryo without any fertilisation from the diploid cell of nucellus or integument and not from the egg.

Polyembryony is the development of two or more embryos from a single fertilised egg.

Parthenocarpy refers to development of fruits without fertilisation.

Parthenogenesis refers to the development of an offspring from an egg or ovum(female gamete) without fertilisation.

(D) Parthenogenesis

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