• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      they are hermaphrodites, so they mate with any other snail of the same species, and the same coiled shell. they usually dont have uni-sex individuals. flatworms, annelids are hermaphrodites as well. tapeworms are a type of flatworm that self-fertilizes in thier proglottid segments.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      Most terrestrial snails are hermaphrodites, so it’s more like they can only mate with their own sex. But it’s a bit more complicated than that; they typically produce sperm earlier than they produce egg cells, to discourage self-fertilisation, so you could argue they start male and end female.

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        Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.

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        Youth to inject random new genes for testing and age to work with what’s tried and true …. Huh.

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      Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote “his reproductive organs”, Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.