sex chromosome
nouns
(genetics) a chromosome that determines the sex of an individual
"mammals normally have two sex chromosomes"
domain category
the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
is a type of (narrower)
a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
"humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes"
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