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Pages in category "Unisexual animals" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1]
One example is the meadow saxifrage, Saxifraga granulata. [39] Charles Darwin gave several other examples in his 1877 book "The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species". [40] About 57% of moss species and 68% of liverworts are unisexual, meaning that their gametophytes produce either male or female gametes, but not both. [41]: 377
Some documented species, specifically salamanders and geckos, that rely on obligate parthenogenesis as their major method of reproduction. As such, there are over 80 species of unisex reptiles (mostly lizards but including a single snake species), amphibians and fishes in nature for which males are no longer a part of the reproductive process. [41]
Gonochorism has evolved independently multiple times. [8] It is very evolutionarily stable in animals. [9] Its stability and advantages have received little attention. [10]: 46 Gonochorism owes its origin to the evolution of anisogamy, [11] but it is unclear if the evolution of anisogamy first led to hermaphroditism or gonochorism.
Cute Gray Cat Names. Though the color gray often gets stereotyped as a boring, bland color, we've never met a gray cat that wasn't simply stunning.
Dioecy (/ d aɪ ˈ iː s i / dy-EE-see; [1] from Ancient Greek διοικία dioikía 'two households'; adj. dioecious, / d aɪ ˈ iː ʃ (i) ə s / dy-EE-sh(ee-)əs) [2] [3] is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants).
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