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    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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    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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    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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    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 is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly...
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    Germ cell (redirect from Sex cells)
    and Sex Determination in Mammals". Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th . ed.). Garland Science. Spiller C, Koopman P, Bowles J (November 2017). "Sex Determination...
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    Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    birds, female is the heterogametic sex, that is, it has one Z and one W sexual chromosome (genotype ZW), while male (the homogametic sex) carries two Z chromosomes...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    Haplodiploidy is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and...
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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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    PMID 20576791. Mirzaghaderi G, Hörandl E (2016). "The evolution of meiotic sex and its alternatives". Proc. Biol. Sci. 283 (1838). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016...
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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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  • 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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  • PMID 11301597. Hillis DM, Green DM (1990). "Evolutionary changes of heterogametic sex in the phylogenetic history of amphibians". Journal of Evolutionary...
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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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    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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    The ZO sex-determination system is a system that determines the sex of offspring in several moths. In those species, there is one sex chromosome, Z. Males...
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