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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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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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