produce both sperm and ova is a hermaphrodite. As an example, most earthworms are hermaphrodites. A simultaneous hermaphrodite has both sets of sex organs...

one specific time of year. That time varies between species. For some hermaphroditic species, copulation is not needed because the parent organism can self-fertilize...

make egg cells. Some animals have different gonads because they are hermaphroditic. They may have gonads such as the ovotestis. This is a gland that is...

both kinds of cells for reproduction are called hermaphrodites. For example, most snails are hermaphrodite. Those organisms that make sperm are called male...

ovary. Flowers that contain both androecium and gynoecium are called hermaphroditic. Examples of plants with perfect or bisexual flowers include the lily...

sequence its whole genome. C. elegans has two types of sex: hermaphrodite and male. A hermaphrodite makes sperms when its in a larval stage and makes ova in...

In Anatolian, Greek and Roman mythology, Agdistis was a hermaphroditic being, and symbolized the wild and uncontrolled powers of nature. She is the personification...

females. Hermaphrodite is a word that gets confused with intersex, and while all hermaphrodites are intersex, not all intersex people are hermaphrodites. The...

'hijra' is often translated into 'eunuch' or 'hermaphrodite'. Some hijras are eunuchs or hermaphrodites. Many are not. Hijras are discriminated against...

called male. The majority of seed plants produce both, and are called hermaphrodite. Organisms can either be grouped as male or female. Female humans are...

usually asymmetric at the base and sharply pointed at the tip. Elms are hermaphroditic, having perfect flowers, and which, being wind-pollinated, are without...

synoecious) if it has both male and female reproductive parts. A perfect or hermaphroditic flower has both stamens and an ovary. If a flower has just male or just...

flower from June to July. The seeds ripen in October. The flowers are hermaphroditic. There are many white blossoms during May and June. The plant is pollinated...

(singular: 'annulus' = 'little ring'). Annelids reproduce sexually by hermaphroditic cross-fertilization. They can regenerate cut off pieces of their body...

sexual organ of most male animals. It is used to inseminate females (or hermaphrodites) during sex (copulation). In some animals, the penis is also used to...

both sexes occur on the same individual, that individual is an hermaphrodite. Hermaphrodite systems can be found in some animals, for example snails, and...

many freshwater snails and a few marine species. They breathe air, are hermaphrodite, and usually have no operculum. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (eds) 2005...

lions, and wearing a mural crown. In Phrygian myth, she was born a hermaphroditic being named Agdistis, a child of Zeus and Gaia. Cybele had a shepherd...

co-evolutionary relationship. Fig plants can be monoecious (hermaphrodite) or gynodioecious (hermaphrodite and female). Nearly half of fig species are gynodioecious...

gynodioecious. Gynodioecy is a rare breeding system where female and hermaphroditic plants coexist in a population. The species Geranium viscosissimum (sticky...

silvery egg in the divine Aether. It produced the god Phanes, who is a hermaphrodite. Phanes gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the creator...

this family, and sometimes so are sepals. The flowers can be either hermaphrodite or of separate sexes. The fruit is drupe-like, consisting of one carpel...

hermaphrodite have both male and female parts which are the stamen and pistil, respectively. In animals, similar systems exist where hermaphrodites live...

are egg cells it is female. If both are present, the organism is a hermaphrodite. We know, from their cell structure, that multicellularity has evolved...

tongue worms. Crustacea usually have separate sexes, however some are hermaphroditic. Their eggs eventually hatch into larvae. Crustaceans are a subphylum...

by the next host, which is another type of vertebrate. Tapeworms are hermaphrodite, with both sexes. Cross-fertilization occurs between two tapeworms in...

The worship of Aphroditus comes from Cyprus, a cult of a masculine or hermaphrodite form of Aphrodite. The divinity was introduced into Greece and celebrated...

sleeping together. The two animals may be of opposite sexes or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails. Sexual intercourse may also be between...

It is a parasite in the eye of a hippopotamus. Monogenea are usually hermaphrodites. This means that they have both sexes. First they are males, and only...

haploid sperm. Oogenesis: the process which produces haploid egg cells. Hermaphrodite: an organism with male and female sex organs. Examples: earthworms,...

called Korean cherry. The shrub reaches 1.5 m by 1.5 m. Its flowers are hermaphrodite. They are pollinated by insects. The plant blossoms in May. Its fruit...

Erotes, a group of winged love gods. His name is the origin of the word hermaphrodite. According to a myth of Ovid, he was raised by nymphs in a cave on Mount...

Trolls . There’s a 17th Century poem about Gryla which says she’s a hermaphrodite. In early stories, Gryla asked parents to give her their badly behaved...

(3⁄4–1+3⁄4 in) long, and have a serrated edge. The flowers, which are hermaphrodite and insect-pollinated, are produced in early spring just before the...

"Male sterility in natural populations of hermaphrodite plants the equilibrium between females and hermaphrodites to be expected with different types of...

sand-like droppings, or casts, surrounding the entrance. Earthworms are hermaphrodites, meaning they each contain male and female gametes. During mating, both...

the hosts mature, sexual forms called rhombogens are formed. They are hermaphrodites, with gonads of both sexes. The rhombogens self-fertilise, and later...

near entire margins with 4-8 teeth. Flowers light green or white, hermaphrodite, pentamer, radiate. Five petals, 5 sepals, 10 stamens and 5 pistils...

Gnathostomulids have no fossil record. Gnathostomulids are simultaneous hermaphrodites. Each individual possesses a single ovary and one or two testes. After...

carbon dioxide away and to get new oxygen. The apple snails are not hermaphrodite, like most snails, meaning that they have two genders. The male snail...

The most intense form of inbreeding is the self-fertilisation in an hermaphrodite, in which the proportion of heterozygotes is halved in each generation...

both sexually and asexually. All Bryozoans, as far as is known, are hermaphrodite (meaning they are both male and female). All members of a colony are...

fresh water or very damp soil, depending on the type. Planaria are hermaphrodite: they produce both eggs and sperm. To reproduce, a planarian releases...

dawn. Jellyfish are usually either male or female (with occasional hermaphrodites). In most cases, adults release sperm and eggs into the surrounding...

has only one sex. They are either male or female. Other species are hermaphrodites so a single scallop has both male and female reproductive organs at...

Unusually for molluscs, they lack a mantle cavity. Nudibranchs are hermaphrodite, and thus have a set of reproductive organs for both sexes, but they...

work as primitive ocelli (eye spots). Gastrotrichs are simultaneous hermaphrodites: they have both male and female sex organs. Once the sperm are produced...

Riki Anne (1997). One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. Duke University: Duke University Press. p. 217.{{cite...

start to appear and produce a fresh, thick crown by April. Flowers are hermaphrodite; the pollination is by insects like bees. The fruit is a legume (also...

released that promote the vertical growth of the shell. Limpets are hermaphrodites (producing both male and female reproductive cells) and undergo sex...

exterior via nephridiopores, on the anal papilla. Phoronids may be hermaphrodites or single sexed, and may also reproduce asexually. Gametes are released...

on a corn plant (monoecious), rather than both sexes in one flower (hermaphrodite). Maize flowers have evolved (changed over time) to use wind for pollination...

e. they are biennial. The rootstock is perennial. Most species are hermaphrodites with male and female parts being present on the same flower. Bramble...

(Ἁρποκράτης), god of silence Hermaphroditus (Ἑρμάφρόδιτός), god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men Hymenaios (Ὑμέναιος), god of marriage and marriage...

Gnathostomulida: jaw worms, a small phylum of small marine animals (100 species). Hermaphrodite, live in muddy benthic habitat, scrape food from particles with their...

trees are dioecious (with separate male an female plants) but some are hermaphrodite. The male trees do not produce fruit. The trees blossom in autumn. The...

Marvels by Phlegon of Trales. This quote speaks about the birth of a hermaphrodite, and ceremonies for sacrificing to idols. 238 or 240 BC: The 'Flower...

Reproduction in Bipalium may be asexual or sexual. All species are hermaphroditic. B. adventitium reproduces sexually. They make egg capsules which hatch...

the age-1 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans lengthens life and reduces hermaphrodite fertility" (PDF). Genetics. 118 (1): 75–86. doi:10.1093/genetics/118...

characteristics Sex-determination system Intersex Disorders of sex development Hermaphrodite Endosex Sexual orientation and behaviour are independent from gender...

Fatāwās by a Mufti for it or against the ("Zenanas") or Eunuchs and Hermaphrodites within the country, that remains a debatable issue for the existing...

Royalty of transgender people; Under the Mughal rule, transgender people were called khawjasaras, a designation of respect and dignity. The Mughals employed...

recognition" costs by maintaining a more fluid range of sexual behaviors. Hermaphrodite § Animals Braithwaite, L. W. (1981). "Ecological studies of the Black...

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reveals the evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes in a sequential hermaphrodite fish". Communications Biology. 1 (1): 119. doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0122-7...