This is because they contain only one complement of chromosomes, which is the signal in bees, ants and wasps that an embryo should develop into a male.
These two interests dovetail and complement one another in remarkable ways in her fiction.
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But Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC's chief prosecutor, insists that peace and justice, far from being antagonistic, can actually complement one another.
In some cases, companies are renting desks in co-working spaces, with an idea that workers from different companies, and with different skill sets, can complement one another.
The goals of maximizing profit and fulfilling a moral agenda conflict more often than they complement one another, and investors who want to put ethics first have turned out to be relatively few.
WebGov, which Hirning considers a federal home page instead of an information portal, plans to work with commercial enterprises offering federal Web portals to explore ways that the commercial portals and WebGov could complement one another.
Forest Pitch is one of a range of projects commissioned to complement the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
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With the emergence of the Social TV phenomenon, one can see TV and social media now complement each other.
Regional operators are teaming up with private equity firms to place bids on one or two of the clusters that would complement their own businesses.
Labour's boldest step has been to complement the internal market with an external one.
Instead of one satellite carrying every instrument, EPS-SG is likely to split the complement across two separate platforms.
But Regina Rabinovich of the Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic agencies in the world, says small private gifts complement official aid in multiple ways: when simple folk empty their pockets, that bolsters political support for government help.
South Korea's researchers have taken egg cells from volunteer women, removed the nuclei from those cells (which contain only half of the genetic complement required to make a human being, since the other half is provided by the sperm), and replaced each nucleus with one taken from one of the volunteer's body cells (which contains a full genetic complement).
Not to replace the finance, accounting, marketing and operations skills necessary to run a successful business, but to complement them with the creative problem solving skills necessary to invent a new one.
Archival footage and videos complement the historical battle between WCW and WWF as they battled for viewers by one-upping the mayhem on national television.
To complement the workshops, students can engage in an internship for a maximum of one semester in order to obtain more substantial work experience to support their future development.
He poured me a glass of Le Baccanti, an Apulian Primitivo, which was just dry enough to complement rather than overwhelm the dishes coming at me at the rate of roughly one per every half-eaten plate.
She also at one point dons an unflattering old Disney-inspired Snow White costume and insists her friends dress as dwarfs to complement it.
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