hermaphrodite
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noun
In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites , or males.
a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.
adjective
hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture
of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics.
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We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in 'hermaphrodite' animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.
Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described 'hermaphrodite' who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle.
Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a 'hermaphrodite' embryo containing male and female cells.
The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, 'hermaphrodite' figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth.
Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous 'hermaphrodite' mother.
A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a 'hermaphrodite' , harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs.
This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from 'hermaphrodite' parents.
Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be 'hermaphrodite' .
Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult 'hermaphrodite' bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs.
Most flowering plant species are 'hermaphrodite' and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity.
A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or 'hermaphrodite' parent.
In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a 'hermaphrodite' ; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and 'hermaphrodite' cyathia at each level of the inflorescence.
Gynodioecy, the coexistence of 'hermaphrodite' and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species.
Twenty female and 20 'hermaphrodite' plants were chosen randomly in each population.
SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by 'hermaphrodite' plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
The barramundi is also a 'hermaphrodite' , born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
The idea of the 'hermaphrodite' who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind.
A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not 'hermaphrodite' populations.
However, seeds from 'hermaphrodite' trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers.
All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and 'hermaphrodite' progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration.
Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about 'hermaphrodite' babies.
However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in 'hermaphrodite' plants.
Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and 'hermaphrodite' individuals coexist frequently within natural populations.
One female and one 'hermaphrodite' plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses.
Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some 'hermaphrodite' animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions.
This allowed construction of a male / 'hermaphrodite' strain.
The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the 'hermaphrodite' therefore was s/he who lay in the middle.
In simultaneous 'hermaphrodites' , both male and female roles are present in the same individual.
The flowers of Zamioculcas are morphologically 'hermaphroditical' , but physiologically unisexual.
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