Definitions
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- noun The condition of being
dioecious
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Examples
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Outcrossing is mainly achieved through dioecy and self-incompatibility, or promoted by dichogamy in the hermaphroditic flowers, and facilitated by wind pollination.
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In the shola forests in particular, dioecy is quite prevalent among the Lauraceae and Moraceae.
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In the overall context of the evolution of reproductive systems from hermaphroditism toward dioecy (system in which individuals are exclusively either male or female), mixed systems involving the presence in the same species of both females and hermaphrodites (gynodioecy) or both males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy) are considered intermediaries derived from hermaphroditism.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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This discovery proves for the first time the possibility of an evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This discovery proves for the first time the possibility of an evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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In the overall context of the evolution of reproductive systems from hermaphroditism toward dioecy (system in which individuals are exclusively either male or female), mixed systems involving the presence in the same species of both females and hermaphrodites (gynodioecy) or both males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy) are considered intermediaries derived from hermaphroditism.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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In the overall context of the evolution of reproductive systems from hermaphroditism toward dioecy (system in which individuals are exclusively either male or female), mixed systems involving the presence in the same species of both females and hermaphrodites (gynodioecy) or both males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy) are considered intermediaries derived from hermaphroditism.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This discovery proves for the first time the possibility of an evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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This discovery proves for the first time the possibility of an evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
-
In the overall context of the evolution of reproductive systems from hermaphroditism toward dioecy (system in which individuals are exclusively either male or female), mixed systems involving the presence in the same species of both females and hermaphrodites (gynodioecy) or both males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy) are considered intermediaries derived from hermaphroditism.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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