hermaphrodite
حامل زر اور بقچہ
definition
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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Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a 'hermaphrodite' embryo containing male and female cells.
This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from 'hermaphrodite' parents.
This allowed construction of a male / 'hermaphrodite' strain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gynodioecy, the coexistence of 'hermaphrodite' and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species.
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.
In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a 'hermaphrodite' ; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
Twenty female and 20 'hermaphrodite' plants were chosen randomly in each population.
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.
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.
One female and one 'hermaphrodite' plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses.
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.
Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about 'hermaphrodite' babies.
Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous 'hermaphrodite' mother.
A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not 'hermaphrodite' populations.
Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some 'hermaphrodite' animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions.
Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult 'hermaphrodite' bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs.
Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and 'hermaphrodite' individuals coexist frequently within natural populations.
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.
SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by 'hermaphrodite' plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
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.
Most flowering plant species are 'hermaphrodite' and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity.
Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be 'hermaphrodite' .
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.
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.
She started as a historian of science, working on the history of medical treatment of 'hermaphroditism' (now called intersex).
So the genetic information that determines a snail shell's coiling direction can not be found in the snail's own cells, but in those of the mother animal - in the case of the 'hermaphroditical' land snails the snail the egg cell was from.
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