sex chromosome

sex chromosome
sex chromosome n a chromosome (as the X chromosome or the Y chromosome in humans) of a sexually reproducing eukaryotic organism that is directly concerned with the inheritance of sex, that contains the genes governing the inheritance of various sex-linked and sex-limited characters, and that is represented differently in the two sexes either by being present in one and not the other or by being present a different number of times in one sex compared to the other called also heterochromosome

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a chromosome that is involved in the determination of the sex of the individual. Women have two X chromosome; men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. Compare autosome.

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