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SEX CHROMOSOMES

The homologous chromosomes that are dissimilar in the heterogametic sex. There are the x chromosome, the y chromosome, and the w, z chromosomes (in animals in which the female is the heterogametic sex (the silkworm moth bombyx mori, for example). In such cases the w chromosome is the female-determining and the male is zz.
antipodal   antipodal cell   antipodal cone   antipode   antiport   antiporter   antiporters   antiposic   (0)
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