Showing posts with label Female. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Female. Show all posts
Female
Female
Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova (egg cells).
Defining characteristics
The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male. A female individual cannot reproduce sexually without access to the gametes of a male (an exception is parthenogenesis). Some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually.
There is no single genetic mechanism behind sex differences in
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