Why is the sex chromosomes of humans and most animals written as XY while for birds it is ZW
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Zw is a different biological system. Xy animals, xx is female with two similar chromosomes and xy is male with two distinct ones; In zw animals, males have two of the same chromosome, written zz, but females have distinct z and w chromosomes. Essentially they are opposite ways of randomizing offspring genetics
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