Hi iam doing some biology homework and I don’t understand what this question is asking “discuss why knowing an individual is XX or XY interms of chromosomes is not sufficient to know their biological sex?” What iam suppose to do?
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OP, it is probably addressing that sex hormones also play a role. Physical sex is partly genetic and partly hormonal. There are genes and then the expression of genes. For example, it turns out male pattern baldness is a misnomer: it is a genetic trait, but activated (allowed to be expressed as a phenotype) by androgens. There are primary and secondary sex characteristics for humans.
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