self-fertilization
noun
fertilization of an ovum of a plant by a male gamete from the same flower (opposed to cross-fertilization).
self-fertilized
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a word derived from
self-fertilization.
Example Sentences
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When these plants self-fertilized, the outcome was just like the F1 self-fertilizing cross.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The cross between the true-breeding P plants produces F1 heterozygotes that can be self-fertilized.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
When the seeds were ripe he gathered them, carefully keeping those of the self-fertilized flowers separate from the others.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley
But whether they would do so when self-fertilized, and whether the reversionary individuals are always bound to return towards the center of the group or towards the opposite limit, remains to be investigated.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
But besides these showy flowers intended to be cross-fertilized by insects, the bush clovers bear, among the others, insignificant-looking, tightly closed, bud-like ones that produce abundant self-fertilized seed.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
