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Question : The male fruit fly and female fowl are heterogametic while the female fruit fly and the male fowl are homogametic. Why are they called so? |
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Answer» SOLUTION :CELL type of MALE fruit fly - XY FEMALE fowl - ZW The sex chromosomes are different, hence, they are called heterogametic. While female fruit fly has XX and male fowl has ZZ. The sex chromosomes are similar hence homogametic. |
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