Are Turtles Dioecious?

Male and female turtles between the ages of 10 and 24 are dioecious in nature. Diocey is the Greek adjective form of the word dioecious which is the property of a group of biological organisms that have males and females, but not members that have organs of both sexes at the same time. What this means in simpler terms, is that each individual organism can only be distinctly male or female.

In some species of animals, sex is not only determined by genetics, but is also determined by the environment. Concentrations of hormones or differences in temperatures will cause the developing embryo to develop as either male or female. However the sex of most dioecious individuals such as the turtle is not determined by the environment, but is in fact determined by genetics.