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2024
XY_system
XY system
English
Drosophila sex-chromosomes
Proper noun
XY
system
(
biology
)
The system that determines the sex of
humans
, most other
mammals
, some insects (
Drosophila
), and some plants (
Ginkgo
), in which females have two of the same kind of
sex cell
(
XX
) and males have two distinct sex cells (
XY
).
Alternative forms
XX-XY system
See also
ZW system
X0 system
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