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Sex determination

Definition(s)

Any process that establishes and transmits the specification of sexual status of an individual organism. Reference(s): ISBN:0198506732: Definition from: Unified Medical Language System (Gene Ontology) at the National Library of Medicine
The mechanism in a given species by which sex is determined; in many species sex is determined at fertilization by the nature of the sperm that fertilizes the egg.: Definition from: Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health


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