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Sex chromosome

A chromosome in eukaryotic organisms that is represented differently in the two sexes. In many organisms, one sex possesses a pair of visibly different chromosomes. One is an X chromosome, and the other is a Y chromosome. Commonly, the XX sex is female and the XY is male.

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