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How can grouped female American cockroaches reproduce without mating?
AExternal budding
BParthenogenesis
CFragmentation
DPolyembryony
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Parthenogenesis
Group housing promotes facultative parthenogenesis, producing oothecae without fertilisation.
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