Important Terms

sex

sex determination

hermaphroditism

monoecious organism

dioecious organism

sex chromosome

autosome

heterogametic sex

homogametic sex

pseudoautosomal region

genic sex determination

sequential hermaphroditism

Turner syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome

triple-X syndrome

sex-determining region Y (SRY) gene

sex-linked characteristic

X-linked characteristic

Y-linked characteristic

hemizygosity

nondisjunction

dosage compensation

Barr body

Lyon hypothesis