Sex

id: sex-167-12886078
title: Sex
text: Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. During sexual reproduction, a male and a female gamete fuse to form a zygote, which develops into an offspring that inherits traits from each parent. By convention, organisms that produce smaller, more mobile gametes are called male, while organisms that produce larger, non-mobile gametes are called female. An organism that produces both types of gamete is hermaphrodite. In non-he
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description: Trait that determines an organism's sexually reproductive function
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex
date created: 2001-10-10T16:46:28Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T11:51:23Z
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