GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hermaphroditism is also found in some fish species and to a lesser degree in other vertebrates. Most plants are also hermaphrodites. Animal species having different sexes, male and female, are called gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphrodite.

Detailed explanation-2: -Table of Contents. hermaphroditism, the condition of having both male and female reproductive organs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The hermaphroditic chalk bass, a Caribbean native, switches from female to male and back again, multiple times a day. The natural world offers many curiosities, but hermaphroditism-the presence of both male and female reproductive organs-may be among the most peculiar.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are plenty of other animals that consistently defy gender and sex binaries. Female spotted hyenas, for example, has external genitalia that looks a lot like the penis of their male counterparts. The male clown fish can change sex when a dominant female dies, in order to replace her.

Detailed explanation-5: -However, in a few vertebrates like fishes (and in plants and many invertebrate animals), a condition called hermaphroditism is common. A hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs and can perform both the male and female parts of reproduction.