Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What is the number of autosomes and sex chromosomes in males and females?

How many autosomes and sex chromosomes do males and females have? What are the sex chromosomes? Thank you!|||22 pairs of autosomes and a pair if sex chromosomes. They are labelled X and Y. An XX pairing is female and XY is male.|||well it depends on what species you're talking about. human was already mentioned (with the exception of certain rare cases)





birds have a ZW sex determination scheme where ZW = female, ZZ=male. even more exotic is sex determination in platypii; i think they systems seems to be determined by the ratio of X to Y or something like that.|||23 pairs total,


22 autosome pairs,


1 sex pair,


XX in women


XY in males





happy genetics!

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