Dioecious

... above, most of us are used to the terminology of sperm being the most common form of gamete produced by males (and that applies to plants, too, dioecious or monoecious), or male gametes, with egg cells / ova being female gametes. The gametes define the genders, after all. And, by your definition, ...

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... but I think complicating the issue with hermophroditic matters is not neccessary. And sperm cells are not the same as male gametes. Consider dioecious plants...

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... bright ones" ignores the thousands of angiosperm species that are wind pollinated (and, hence, don't need to attract pollinators), and/or dioecious (which often rely on generalist pollinators, rather than bees or hummingbirds), and/or attract pollinators by scent, etc. If you'd like to ...

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... are all homosporic, but then how do they have seperate male and female gametophytes? Are there different sexes of sporophytes? Also are mosses dioecious? Thanks for your help, Ariel

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... "Name and describe the two major anatomical divisions of a tapeworm." I know that among helminths in general, there are monoecious and dioecious worms. But does that apply to tapeworms specifically? All that I've found about tapeworms is that they all have a scolex head and a compartmentalized ...

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