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XY system en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. 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).

Relateds

ZW system · X0 system

Synonyms

XX-XY system