NOUN
- fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual
How To Use self-fertilization In A Sentence
- In this case it appears that male sterility caused self-fertilization to fail but some days later cross-fertilization took place.
- SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
- Both individuals and gametes were unisexual, and self-fertilization was allowed.
- Physid snails usually cross-fertilize but are capable of occasional self-fertilization.
- Because self-incompatibility operates after pollination, it reduces geitonogamous self-fertilization but not geitonogamous pollination.
- Many plants, apparently physically equipped for self-fertilization, were completely self-sterile.
- In this case it appears that male sterility caused self-fertilization to fail but some days later cross-fertilization took place.
- Consequently, the genetic structure of this species is likely to be shaped by rare outcrossing events among colonists, followed by generations of self-fertilization to produce recombinant inbred lineages.
- If so, is it autogamous (capable of self-fertilization in the absence of pollinators)?
- Together, the three modes of geitonogamy make a much larger contribution to self-fertilization than autogamy.
