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Dioecious species are whose members can produce only one type of gamete; each individual organism belonging to a dioecious species is distinctly male or female (the word deriving from the Greek for "two households"). The majority ...
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In botany, dioecious is a term used to describe the sexuality of certain flowering plants. Dioecious plants are species in which each individual plant has only male or only female flowers, but normally not both. Unlike the majority of flowe...
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In terrestrial plants the segregation of male and female reproductions on different individuals results in the seed-shadow handicap: males do not disperse any seed so that the number of local patches reached by seeds is potentially reduced ...
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Most arthropods, such as the centipede, are dioecious and have paired reproductive organs. Have more questions? ChaCha!
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Dioecious species theoretically suffer a reproductive cost in comparison to cosexual (hermaphroditic or monoecious) species of equal abundance simply because populations of dioecious species contain fewer seed-producing individuals. To comp...
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It is known that at least 11 neotropical monoecious species of figs regulate temperature by transpiration (evaporative cooling) and thus maintain suitable low internal tissue temperatures for the development of the pollinator wasps. Tempera...
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In the dioecious plant Melandrium album, it has been reported that all plants regenerated from tissue cultures were of female sex phenotypes. To elucidate female plant regeneration, we examined adventitious bud differentiation from leaf exp...
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Birds are dioecious. They are either male or female. Never both.
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The "-oecious" part of these words is derived from the classical Greek word "oikos" meaning "house". The word Ecology is also derived from this because it is the study of where organisms live and how they inter...
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1. Having the male and female reproductive organs borne on separate individuals of the same species. 2. Characterized by species in which the male and female reproductive organs occur on different individuals; sexually distinct. 3. (esp. of...
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