What's the difference between mating and polyandry?

Mating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
  • (4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
  • (5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
  • (12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
  • (13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
  • (15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
  • (16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
  • (17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
  • (18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
  • (20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.

Polyandry


Definition:

  • (n.) The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 'low recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm dimorphic species D. affinis while a 'high recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm monomorphic species D. latifasciaeformis and D. littoralis.
  • (2) Type II is female-headed and daughters bring children into the household by de facto polyandry (41%), but sons formally weds monogamously.
  • (3) Mark you, I think you probably need plenty of money for polyandry.
  • (4) The results imply that tolerance by the national government of polyandry within certain minority groups (e.g.
  • (5) Type I households have as head a women whose husband either visits or lives with her but is not legally bound to her; it is de facto polyandry (26.7% of survey households).
  • (6) National government should practice tolerance of polyandry as an acid to the attainment of zero population growth.
  • (7) The phenomenon is not correlated with an unusually large degree of male parental investment, polyandry, greater aggressiveness in females than in males, greater development of weapons in females, female dominance, or matriarchy.
  • (8) The concern is that the nonHan might raise the national birth rate and reduce the proportion of Han, even though nonHan life expectancy is lower and there is practice of polyandry.
  • (9) The general practice of polyandry is described as a walking marriage where women control material resources.
  • (10) Discussion is provided on the polyandry found among villagers of Limi in the Highlands of Nepal and the Tre-ba of Central Tibet, where there is fraternal polyandry patriarchies, where fertility rates of these unions were not higher, and a sizeable fraction of women 20-49 were left without mates (31% in Limi and 29% in Dhinga).
  • (11) These include the male's greater aggressiveness, the preponderance of polygyny over polyandry, and differences in the antecedents of jealousy.
  • (12) Males in the three species are equally polygynous but females differ in the level of polyandry.
  • (13) The results indicate that polyandry, by a large number of males, is not a common phenomenon in M. rotundata bee species.
  • (14) 'obligatory' polyandry) should only result in sperm monomorphism irrespective of the absolute value of sperm length.
  • (15) The Musuo have practiced matrilineal polyandry since the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 AD).
  • (16) Field studies of callitrichid species have reported a surprising degree of variation in the composition of social groups, some of which has been interpreted as evidence of 'cooperative polyandry' in recent reviews.
  • (17) Female mating bonds include long-term monogamy, serial monogamy, polyandry and promiscuity.
  • (18) Since reactivity to syphilis was associated with poverty, poor hygiene, polyandry, polygamy, and illiteracy, citizens living in Himachal Pradesh were at great risk of acquiring HIV from a foreigner.
  • (19) In Kerala state, India and among the Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, polyandry may not increase the fertility of individual wives, and is economically resourceful.