In biology, gonochorism (Greek offspring + disperse) or unisexualism or gonochory describes the state of having just one of at least two distinct sexes in any one individual organism. The term is most often used with animals, in which the individual organisms are often gonochorous. Gonochory is less common in plants. For example, in flowering plan...
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• (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. • (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless. • (n.) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism.Gonochorism: words in th...
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condition where the sex of an individual is sexually predetermined at birth or hatching and do not change sex.
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Separation of the sexes in different individuals; opposed to hermaphroditism. ... In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. ... In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless. ... Origin: Gr. Offspring + to separate. ... Source: W...
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Gon`o·cho'rism noun [ Greek ... offspring + ... to separate.]
(a) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to
hermaphroditism .
(b) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.
(c) ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: gon-ok′ōr-izm, -ō-riz′mŭs Definitions: 1. Normal gonadal differentiation appropriate to the sex.
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gonochorism Differentiation of the gonads with normal development of the reproductive organs appropriate to the sex; the opposite of hermaphroditism.
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