In biology, gonochorism (greek seed + disperse) describes a sexually reproducing species in which individuals are distinctly male or female. The sex of an individual does not change throughout its lifetime. This system stands in contrast to other reproductive strategies such as hermaphroditism. Gonochoric (or gonochoristic) species are sometimes described by the synonym "dioecious." Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ... Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that results in increasing genetic diversity of the offspring. ... Reproduction is the creation of one thing as a copy of, product of, or replacement for a similar thing, e. ... The 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. ... In biology, Dioecious is an adjective which indicates the exisistence of separate sexes in a species of organisms. ...