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XY

noun
1.
(genetics) normal complement of sex hormones in a male.





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... the male one is straight as in the female, the other is bent. The straight ones are called the X chromosomes, the bent one the Y chromosome. The fertilisations are thus XX which develops into a female fly, and XY which develops into a male. Drosophila therefore is an example of one of the cases ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham


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