Hello!
 
Hi to all, especially PaulM and JoseL,
 
First thanks again for the definitions and at least a place to get me
started. Both of the definitions are sort of OK but there seems to be
something missing.  Since biology is a science very dependent on
definitions these; dioecious and gonochorist seem isufficient or lacking
in some way.
 
In accordance with Webster, the dictionary, that is; dioecious refers to
plants, as each plant having staminate flowers or pistillate flowers ie.
female flowers and male flowers. Papayas are like that, a male plant and
a female plant, so are many others. As for gonochorist; this term refers
to a dioecious individual in which sex development is determined by
developmental rather than hereditary mechanisms.
 
My new or futher question; is there a more definitive term for this
dioecious state in molluscs or any critter in the animal kingdom?
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Later,
 
Emilio Jorge Power
 
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