The heterogametic sex (or digametic sex) is the sex of a species where an individual's gametes have non-matching sex chromosomes. In humans, the heterogametic...
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are called the homogametic sex. Males have two different kinds of sex chromosomes (XY), and are called the heterogametic sex. In humans, the presence of...
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the sex of the offspring. Males are the homogametic sex (ZZ), while females are the heterogametic sex (ZW). The Z chromosome is larger and has more genes...
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Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. During sexual reproduction, a male and a female...
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or Z specific genes in the heterogametic sex to the same levels observed in the ancestor prior to the evolution of the sex chromosome. Other lineages...
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only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex. The heterogametic sex is the one with two different sex chromosomes;...
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Sex chromosomes (also referred to as allosomes, heterotypical chromosome, gonosomes, heterochromosomes, or idiochromosomes) are chromosomes that carry...
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Sexual dimorphism (redirect from Sex dimorphism)
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly...
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Hardy–Weinberg principle (section Sex linkage)
unequal in the two sexes [e.g., XX females and XY males, as in humans], f′(a) in the heterogametic sex 'chases' f(a) in the homogametic sex of the previous...
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Virilization is a medical term commonly used in three medical and biology of sex contexts: prenatal biological sexual differentiation, the postnatal changes...
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Turtles and Aves Share the Same Origin of Sex Chromosomes but Evolved Different Types of Heterogametic Sex Determination". PLOS ONE. 9 (8): e105315. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...
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sexually. Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells, also referred to as sex cells. The name gamete was introduced by the German cytologist Eduard Strasburger...
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species hybrid only one sex is sterile, that sex is usually the heterogametic sex. The heterogametic sex is the one with two different sex chromosomes; in mammals...
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Intersex (redirect from Sex differentiation disorders)
several underlying genetic conditions that cause abnormal development of sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that,...
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The XO sex-determination system (sometimes referred to as X0 sex-determination system) is a system that some species of insects, arachnids, and mammals...
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Human genetics (section Genes and sex)
and are called the homogametic sex. Males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY), and are called the heterogametic sex. Sex linkage is the phenotypic expression...
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two, contrarily to what happens in humans, where the male is the heterogametic sex, as occurs in most diploid species. k+ carrier females are always...
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homozygous to show a recessive trait. The heterogametic sex (males in humans) only receives one of each sex chromosome and will therefore show recessive...
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observed when one copy of a gene is deleted, or, in the heterogametic sex, when a gene is located on a sex chromosome. Hemizygosity is not the same as haploinsufficiency...
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the X chromosome, and codified Haldane's rule on sterility in the heterogametic sex of hybrids in species. He correctly proposed that sickle-cell disease...
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on jurisdictions. Even for minors above the age of consent, comprehensive sex education advises both consenting parties to use contraception to avoid both...
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likely to be the heterogametic sex (i.e. the one with two different sex chromosomes). haplodiploidy A sex-determination system in which the sex of an individual...
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heterogametic mechanism of sex determination". Heredity. 39 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1038/hdy.1977.38. PMID 268319. Charnov EL, Bull J (1977). "When is sex environmentally...
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animals whose sex is determined by sex chromosomes, if one of the two sexes is absent, rare or sterile, it will be the heterogametic sex. Male ligers are...
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Cynoglossus semilaevis (section Sex & sex reversal)
their pathogen susceptibility and uneven sex ratio. Cynoglossus semilaevis have a female heterogametic sex-determination system, with females being ZW...
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characteristics of hybrid inviability. Because the male Savannah is the heterogametic sex, they are most commonly affected, in accordance with Haldane's rule...
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Mechanics of human sexuality (redirect from Mechanics of sex)
The mechanics of human sexuality or mechanics of sex, or more formally the biomechanics of human sexuality, is the study of the mechanics related to human...
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pattern is reversed, since the male is the homogametic sex (ZZ) and the female is heterogametic (ZW). In classical genetics, a mating experiment called...
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hermaphroditism. In this form of hermaphroditism an individual has sex organs of both sexes and can produce both gamete types even in the same breeding season...
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