hermaphrodite
having both male and female reproductive organs in one individual; also known as monecious; contrast to diecious
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Hermaphrodite
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Hermaphrodite is used in botany to describe a flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) and carpelate (female, seed-producing) parts. Other terms for this condition are bisexual and perfect.
hermaphrodite
(her-maf-roh-dite) [Gk. Hermes and Aphrodite]
An individual that functions as both male and female in sexual reproduction by producing both sperm and eggs.
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Hermaphrodites
Hermaphrodites have both male and female sex organs. Many species of fish are hermaphroditic.
Some start out as one sex and then, in response to stimuli in their environment, switch to the other.
Hermaphrodite: An animal that has both male and female reproductive organs. Nudibranchs (sea slugs) are a good example o a hermaphrodite.
Hermatypic: Reef-building.
Hermaphrodite
An individual with both male and female genitalia.
A plant species in which male and female organs occur in the same flower of a single individual (compare monoecious).
hermaphrodite An organism with both male and female functional reproductive organs. Hermaphroditism may refer to an aberration in unisexual animals; monoecy implies that this is the normal condition for the species.
Sequential hermaphrodite. An individual that sequentially produces male and then female gametes or vice versa
Sessile. Immobile because of an attachment to a substratum
Seston. Particulate matter suspended in seawater ...
Caenorhabditis elegans: A normally self-fertilizing hermaphrodite soil nematode whose developmental genetics has been extensively studied. It is no more than 1 mm long.
Origin: probably fr. as. Baeddel hermaphrodite; cf. Baedling effeminate fellow.
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Herkogamy
Spatial separation of male and female reproductive elements by a hermaphroditic organism in order to ensure allogamy.
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Hermaphrodite
An individual with both male and female genitalia.
In fact, all normal individuals have the same number of cells: 959 somatic cells in the hermaphrodite and 1,031 in the male. Unlike Drosophila and mammals, which have extensive cell movement during development, the cells of C.
 See also: Organ, Animal, Species, Trans, Plant
  
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