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autogamy
1. In botany, self-fertilization or self-pollination in plants by their own pollen.
2. In biology, the union of nuclei within and arising from a single cell, as with certain protozoans and fungi.
3. Reproduction in which a single cell undergoes reduction division producing two autogametes that subsequently fuse.
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