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Self Assessment Answer #
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Self Assessment Answer #
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by Dr Jamie Love |
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Monoecious means to have both male and female sex organs in the same individual and, thus able to produce both male and female gametes (sperm and egg, respectively).
["Monoecious" means "one house" in Greek]
Dioecious organisms come in two sexes, male and female, and each individual will produce only one type of gamete.
["Dioecious" means "two houses" in Greek.]
In animals we use the word "hermaphrodite" instead of "monoecious".
In some taxa sex is determined by the environment (concentrations of hormones or differences in temperature), not genetics.
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