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    A sex-determination system is a biological system that determines the development of sexual characteristics in an organism. Most organisms that create...
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    The XY sex-determination system is a sex-determination system present in many mammals, including humans, some insects (Drosophila), some snakes, some fish...
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    The ZW sex-determination system is a chromosomal system that determines the sex of offspring in birds, some fish and crustaceans such as the giant river...
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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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    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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    sex of an individual is determined through one of several biological sex-determination systems. Most mammalian species have the XY sex-determination system...
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    Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval...
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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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    systems, their sex determination primarily regulated by MADS-box genes. These genes code for proteins that form the sex organs in flowers. Plant sex chromosomes...
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    the sex differences between males and females from an undifferentiated zygote. Sex determination is often distinct from sex differentiation; sex determination...
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    Environmental sex determination is the establishment of sex by a non-genetic cue, such as nutrient availability, experienced within a discrete period...
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  • additional diagnostic steps, and deferring sex assignment. In most countries the healthcare provider's determination, along with other details of the birth...
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    identification. The development of sexual differences begins with the XY sex-determination system that is present in humans, and complex mechanisms are responsible...
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    patterns are different in animals that use sex-determination systems other than XY. In the ZW sex-determination system used by birds, the mammalian pattern...
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  • of chromosomal sex determination limits opportunities for parental control of offspring sex ratio. However, adaptive adjustment of sex ratio has been...
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    for the initiation of male sex determination in therian mammals (placental mammals and marsupials). SRY is an intronless sex-determining gene on the Y...
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    Doublesex (category Sex-determination systems)
    Doublesex (dsx) is a gene that is involved in the sex determination system of many insects including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The gene is...
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  • Sex determination may refer to: A sex-determination system, a biological system that directs the development of sexual characteristics in an organism...
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  • fictional organisation in the comic and game XIII XX sex chromosomes, in the XY sex-determination system XX male syndrome, also known as de la Chapelle syndrome...
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    heteromorphic sex-determining chromosomes expressed as XY. It is important to recognize that not all species of Silene have this sex determination system. A few...
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  • Determination of sex is a process by which scientists and medical professionals determine the biological sex of a person or other animal using genetics...
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    the XY or the X0 sex-determination system have two X chromosomes and are female. In species that use the ZW sex-determination system, they have either...
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    Female (redirect from Fairer sex)
    remains unknown. In species that have males and females, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female...
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  • wind speed calculations Z0 sex-determination system in some moth species, also referring to biological females under this system 0Z (disambiguation) This...
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    Adam ZO sex-determination system ZW sex-determination system XO sex-determination system Temperature-dependent sex determination Haplodiploid sex-determination...
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    sex-link rooster ZW sex-determination system List of chicken breeds The Making of Sex-Links - FeatherSite Barry Koffler Sex-Links - FeatherSite Barry...
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  • adaptations. Sex-determination system Sequential hermaphroditism Temperature-dependent sex determination Teratogenesis Weber C, Capel B (November 2018). "Sex reversal"...
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    males. This system of sex determination is unique, because there is no male specific chromosome, as is the case in XX/XY sex determination systems. However...
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    Y chromosome (category Sex-determination systems)
    one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms. Along with the X chromosome, it is part of the XY sex-determination system, in which...
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  • WZ may refer to: WZ sex-determination system, also known as the ZW sex-determination system WZ theory, a technique for simplifying certain combinatorial...
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