Gonochorism, the Glossary

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1. 55 relations: Alligator, Andromonoecy, Animal, Anisogamy, Arthropod, Asexual reproduction, Basal (phylogenetics), Biology, Bird, Bryophyte, Clade, Cockle (bivalve), Convergent evolution, Crustacean, Dioecy, Dioicy, Female, Fish, Flowering plant, Greek language, Gynomonoecy, Hermaphrodite, Hexacorallia, Holly, Human, Judith Mank, Kiwifruit, Male, Mammal, Mark Kirkpatrick, Monoecy, Nematode, Ophryotrocha, Parrotfish, Patella ferruginea, Plant, Plant reproductive morphology, Pollen, Pollenizer, Pollination, Polychaete, Reproduction, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sarah Otto, Sequential hermaphroditism, Sex, Sexual system, Simultaneous hermaphroditism, Snail, Tardigrade, ... Expand index (5 more) »

2. Sexual system

Alligator

An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia.

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Andromonoecy

Andromonoecy is a breeding system of plant species in which male and hermaphrodite flowers are on the same plant. Gonochorism and Andromonoecy are sexual system.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Anisogamy

283x283px Anisogamy is a form of sexual reproduction that involves the union or fusion of two gametes that differ in size and/or form. Gonochorism and Anisogamy are reproduction.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. Gonochorism and Asexual reproduction are reproduction.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bryophyte

Bryophytes are a group of land plants, sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cockle (bivalve)

A cockle is an edible marine bivalve mollusc.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Dioecy

Dioecy (adj. dioecious) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Gonochorism and dioecy are sexual system.

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Dioicy

Dioicy is a sexual system in non-vascular plants where archegonia and antheridia are produced on separate gametophytes. Gonochorism and Dioicy are sexual system.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms. Gonochorism and Flowering plant are Pollination.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Gynomonoecy

Gynomonoecy is defined as the presence of both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same individual of a plant species. Gonochorism and Gynomonoecy are sexual system.

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Hermaphrodite

A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes.

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Hexacorallia

Hexacorallia is a class of Anthozoa comprising approximately 4,300 species of aquatic organisms formed of polyps, generally with 6-fold symmetry.

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Holly

Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Judith Mank

Judith Elizabeth Mank is an American-British-Canadian zoologist who is a Canada 150 Chair at the University of British Columbia.

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Kiwifruit

Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mark Kirkpatrick

Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist.

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Monoecy

Monoecy (adj. monoecious) is a sexual system in seed plants where separate male and female cones or flowers are present on the same plant. Gonochorism and monoecy are sexual system.

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Nematode

The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.

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Ophryotrocha

Ophryotrocha is a genus of marine polychaete worms in the family Dorvilleidae.

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Parrotfish

Parrotfish are a group of fish species traditionally regarded as a family (Scaridae), but now often treated as a subfamily (Scarinae) or tribe (Scarini) of the wrasses (Labridae).

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Patella ferruginea

Patella ferruginea, commonly known as the ferruginous limpet (sometimes, as the ribbed Mediterranean limpet) is a species of true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Patellidae.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Pollen

Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction. Gonochorism and Pollen are Pollination.

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Pollenizer

A pollenizer (or polleniser), sometimes pollinizer (or polliniser, see spelling differences) is a plant that provides pollen. Gonochorism and pollenizer are Pollination.

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds.

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Polychaete

Polychaeta is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes.

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Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Sarah Otto

Sarah Perin Otto (born October 23, 1967) is a theoretical biologist, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution, and is currently a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia.

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Sequential hermaphroditism

Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being simultaneous hermaphroditism. Gonochorism and Sequential hermaphroditism are Pollination, reproduction and sexual system.

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Sex

Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.

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Sexual system

A sexual system is a distribution of male and female function across organisms in a species. Gonochorism and sexual system are reproduction.

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Simultaneous hermaphroditism

Simultaneous hermaphroditism is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being sequential hermaphroditism. Gonochorism and Simultaneous hermaphroditism are sexual system.

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Snail

A snail is a shelled gastropod.

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Tardigrade

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.

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Temperature-dependent sex determination

Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.

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Thelytoky

Thelytoky (from the Greek thēlys "female" and tokos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis and is the absence of mating and subsequent production of all female diploid offspring as for example in aphids.

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Trioecy

Trioecy is a sexual system characterized by the coexistence of males, females, and hermaphrodites. Gonochorism and Trioecy are sexual system.

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Vascular plant

Vascular plants, also called tracheophytes or collectively tracheophyta, form a large group of land plants (accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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See also

Sexual system

• Androdioecy
• Andromonoecy
• Dioecy
• Dioicy
• Gonochorism
• Gynodioecy
• Gynomonoecy
• Monoecy
• Monoicy
• Sequential hermaphroditism
• Sexual system
• Simultaneous hermaphroditism
• Trimonoecy
• Trioecy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonochorism

Also known as Gonochoric, Gonochorisms, Gonochorist, Gonochoristic, Gonochorists, Gonochorous, Gonochory, Single sex, Unisexualism, Unisexuality.

, Temperature-dependent sex determination, Thelytoky, Trioecy, Vascular plant, Vertebrate.