Unisexual
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- For the similar term unisex, see gender-blind. For individuals attracted to only one gender, see monosexuality.
Unisexual species are those in which each individual generally shows the characteristics of only one sex, such as animal species which are divisible into male or female or plant species which are divisible into pistillate or staminate. Good examples of this type of pollination are hollies, and kiwifruit. In these plants the male plant which supplies the pollen is referred to as the pollenizer.
It does not define a sexuality (such as homosexuality), but rather a state of being. It means one has only one kind of sexual organ, as opposed to both kinds as a hermaphrodite would.
[edit] See also
- monoclinous
- diclinous
- plant sexuality
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