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unisexual

(of some organisms) having either male or female reproductive organs but not both
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Unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders produce offspring using a special form of reproduction known as kleptogenesis, in which insemination by a sexual male species is necessary to trigger egg development, but the male's genome is often not incorporated into the zygote.
Environmental Science & Ecology
Deceitful pollination by anther-mimicking stigma had been known earlier only in cases of species with unisexual flowers.
Ecologia de la polinizacion de Clerodendrum indicum (Lamiaceae): primer informe de la polinizacion por engano imitando el estigma en una flor bisexual
Hybrid origin of a unisexual species of whiptail lizard, Cnemidophorus neomexicanus.
Distinguishing characters and variation in Aspidoscelis neomexicana (Squamata: Teiidae): a little known diploid parthenogenetic whiptail lizard in Texas
the prothalli were unisexual, and they maintained so throughout the observational period.
Gametofito de Doryopteris triphylla (Pteridaceae, Polypodiopsida)
No statistically significant differences occurred in the number of unisexual or bisexual stems, or the number of inflorescences, gametangia or sporophytes across the chronosequence for any of the four species.
Sex expression and reproduction of four bryophytes following timber harvesting
Thus, they form a crowd of undesirable degree and unisexual culture (Fan and Shen 1990; Bostanci et al.
Age and Growth Properties of Prussian Carp, Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) Living in the Middle Basin of Seyhan River in Adana, Turkey
All fireflies are unisexual, hence a firefly has the probability of being attracted to all other fireflies;
Firefly Algorithm based Secure and Energy Efficient Routing (FASER)
The condition represents a special kind of parthenocarpy where in addition to the ovaries; staminodes which are rudiments of androecium in the unisexual female flowers also grow to form multiple fruit-like structures.
Hormonal Basis of Shees' Fruit Abnormality in Tissue Culture Derived Plants of Date Palm
axes terminate in a unisexual unit (male or female "flower").
Inflorescence structure in Koyamaeae and its relationship with Sclerieae, Bisboeckelereae, Cryptagieae and Trilepideae tribes (Cyperoideae-cyperaceae)
All fireflies are unisexual so that one firefly will be attracted to all other fireflies
TASK SCHEDULING WITH FIREFLY ALGORITHM IN CLOUD COMPUTING
The flowers are unisexual and incorporated in panicles.
Pharmacological and ethnomedicinal overview of Heritiera fomes: future prospects
In the Arecaceae family as a whole, the evolution of floral characters has been observed, including progression from bisexual to unisexual flowers, and from monoic to dioic species (Moore and Uhl, 1982; Daher et al.
Morphoanatomy of the flower of Syagrus inajai (SPRUCE) Becc. (Arecaceae- Arecoideae- Attaleinae), Amazon/Morfoanatomia floral de Syagrus inajai (Spruce) Becc. (Arecaceae-Arecoideae-Attaleinae), Amazonia

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