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What is a sex chromsomes?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019
It's the ones that are different between men and women.
By convention these are referred to as X and Y chromosomes.
In mammals (including us) a woman has XX and a man has XY.
And yes, a Y is sort of a broken X. But not quite.
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