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You are right. The production of offspring from a single parent is called "parthenogenesis". See wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
It should be noted that only female offspring can be produced by parthenogenesis. In animal, parthenogenesis may have some problems because genomic imprinting is not probably established. Imprinting refers to the mono-allelic expression of particular genes from only one of the allele either of paternal or maternal origin. In other words, if both copies of chromosome are from sperm, imprinting is defected. Defect in imprinting will result in abnormal development or imprinting dieseas.
What is more, in normal cell, one of the X chromosome in females is inactivated (X inactivation) by a non-coding RNA called Xist, while in males, the only X chromosome is active all the time.