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Isomerous
With equal numbers of parts in successive floral whorls (e.g. equal numbers of sepals, petals and stamens).
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Isolation
Prevention of crossing between taxa. A mechanism of defense operating unconsciously central to obsessive-compulsive phenomena in which the affect attached to an idea is rendered unconscious, leaving the conscious idea colorless and emotionally neutral. In epidemiology, a method of controlling the spread of a communicable disease by separating the infected person from those who are…
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Isolateral
With structurally similar upper and lower surfaces.
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Isodiametric
With an equal diameter in all directions (e.g. of venation); Roughly spherical or round.
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Isocotylous
With seedling leaves (cotyledons) of the same size or shape.
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Isobilateral
With structurally similar upper and lower surfaces.
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Iso
Isotype.
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Isandrous
With the number of stamens equal to the number of petals or sepals [unusual term]; With stamens of equal length.
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Isadelphous
With diadelphous stamens, with numbers in each bundle the same.
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Irregular flowers
Those of which the parts of the calyx or corolla are dissimilar in size or shape (i.e. asymmetrical or zygomorphic flowers). This name is given when members of the same sort as, for instance, the petals are unlike in shape or size. One which is not radially symmetrical, with all peta ls equal, but only…
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