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hermaphrodite
having both male and female reproductive organs in one individual; also known as monecious; contrast to diecious
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Hermaphrodite
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For the Julia Ward Howe novel, see The Hermaphrodite.
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Hermaphrodite
In zoology, a hermaphrodite is a species that contains both male and female sexual organs at some point during their lives. In many species, hermaphroditism is a normal part of the life-cycle.
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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.
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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).
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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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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.
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hermaphrodite
Plants which possess both stamens and carpels in the same flower, while in animals it is organisms which possess both male and female sex organs ...
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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 ...
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: A clonal hermaphrodite (Phylum
Chordata
, Subphylum
Tunicata
, Class
Ascidian
=sea squirts). It grows fast, reproduces weekly, and thus, a good model for genetic studies of ...
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limbs, a protruding belly and wide hips, giving rise to controversial theories such that he may have actually been a woman masquerading as a man, which had been known to happen in Egyptian politics once or twice, or that he was a hermaphrodite or had ...
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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.
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