Half-cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Determination

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Half-cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Determination
Source: Wired News
Thursday 11th March, 2010

In mammals, there are two types of sex-determining chromosomes, X and Y.

Each cell in an embryo has a pair of chromosomes, either XX or XY, but the cells are otherwise identical.

Then, early in develo... ...

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