In Popular Culture
Parthenogenesis was mentioned in the 2008 Doctor Who episode "Partners in Crime" as the method used to separate "Adipose" (fat) from the human host, creating young Adipose (hand-sized, marshmallow-shaped beings, composed almost entirely of fat with two eyes and a mouth, two arms with webbed hands and two stumpy legs).
In the Mass Effect video game series, the Asari, an all-female race, is described as reproducing in a process very similar to parthenogenesis.
In episode 5.11 of the drama show House MD, House leads a woman to believe her pregnancy is the result of human parthenogenesis; it is later revealed that House lied to the couple and that the pregnancy resulted from the woman's infidelity.
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