Pollen, in monads or tetrads, is presented in the anthers, adhering to the anther by means of pollenkitt or elastoviscin until collected. |
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Pollen grains are packaged into polyads of 32 associated monads, more than enough to fertilize the ovules of an individual flower. |
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According to Leibniz, the world is made up of indivisible, but nevertheless complex, self-sufficient units that he called monads. |
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According to Leibniz, the whole world is an aggregate of monads. |
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Pollen grains may be released as monads, tetrads or polyads. |
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It is appetition that accounts for the monad's indivisibility, while the infinite set of perceptions accounts for its distinctness from all other monads. |
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