ADJECTIVE
- relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic
How To Use unisexual In A Sentence
- Prof. of Zoology: Kiss is the interchange of unisexual salivary bacteria.
- Members of Atripliceae are characterized by flowers that are usually unisexual, with a perianth present in staminate flowers, and with pistillate flowers lacking a perianth but having accrescent bracteoles in fruit.
- When H. frenatus arrives on an island, the population of the unisexual species plummets.
- The genus has reduced unisexual flowers grouped into characteristic pseudanthia called cyathia.
- Dioecious Flowers unisexual; the male and female flowers on different plants (cf. monoecious). Chapter 9
- W.A. DiMichele has argued that free-sporing heterospory will only be favored in swamp environments, where gametes can move easily between unisexual gametophytes.
- The starting-point of the class, however, and the position within it of apetalous families with frequently unisexual flowers, have provoked much discussion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
- An assessment of genetic and epigenetic diversity that exists in unisexual populations in spite of "clonal" reproduction is largely lacking.
- The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- This means that the unisexual females are actually parasitizing bisexual males of these other species.