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A term usually applied to multicellular organisms in which male and female structures occur on the same individual. In relation to <I>[[Protist|protists]]</I> it applies to a situation in which <I>[[sexual reproduction]]</I> occurs within a single <I>[[clonal strain]]</I>. See also <I>[[heterothallism]]</I>.
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