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NCBI Bookshelf. Although both mammals and fruit flies produce XX females and XY males, their chromosomes achieve these ends using very different means. The sex-determining mechanisms in mammals and in insects such as Drosophila are very different. In mammals, the Y chromosome plays a pivotal role in determining the male sex. Thus, XO mammals are females, with ovaries, a uterus, and oviducts but usually very few, if any, ova. In Drosophila, sex determination is achieved by a balance of female determinants on the X chromosome and male determinants on the autosomes.


XX-XO system




“I’m XY and I Know It”: Sex Determination Systems - Science in the News
This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Whether an animal will become a male, a female, or a hermaphrodite is determined very early in development. Scientists have worked for hundreds of years to understand the sex-determination system. For instance, in B. If the male's heat could overwhelm the female's coldness, then a male child would form.



Genetic Mechanisms of Sex Determination
In this system, there is only one sex chromosome, referred to as X. Males only have one X chromosome X0 , while females have two XX. The zero sometimes, the letter O signifies the lack of a second X. Its sperm normally contain either one X chromosome or no sex chromosomes at all.





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