How To Use dioecious In A Sentence
- Pulmonates are dioecious and hermaphroditic as are prosobranchs, but pulmonates develop directly (there is no larval form).
- The papaya is an interesting example of a tree that can be perfect, monoecious, or dioecious. 5. How plants live and grow
- In some dioecious species, sex determination is controlled by genes on sex chromosomes.
- Examples include dioecious species where only one sex is present.
- Ginkgo trees, like some conifers and cycads, are dioecious, producing pollen and seeds on separate trees.
- Consider a population of dioecious species, in which males mate randomly with females.
- Lloyd and Webb suggested that if females of dioecious species allocated a greater proportion of their available energy to reproduction than males, then females should be slower growing and have lower survival rates.
- Sexually the species are structurally gynodioecious, but there is a strong tendency towards dioecism with apparently bisexual flowers often being functionally unisexual.
- The botanist explained this to his companions, by saying that these were the male plants, and the growing ones the females; for hemp is what is termed by botanists "dioecious" -- that, is, having male flowers on one plant, and female ones upon another. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
- Most species are hermaphroditic, 9% are dioecious, and 9% are monoecious. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
