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SAQ : What do you mean by sexual and asexual chromosomes ?

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What do you mean by sexual and asexual chromosomes ?

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Sex chromosomes are those chromosomes that determine the sex of an individual. In humans, there are two types of sex chromosomes, X and Y. Females have two X chromosomes (XX), while males have one X and one Y chromosome (XY).

Asexual chromosomes are non-sex chromosomes, also known as autosomes, which are present in both males and females in the same number and carry genes that determine most of an individual’s characteristics other than sex. In humans, there are 22 pairs of autosomes.

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