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672:: the same size and both could move, catalogued only as "+" or "-" types. In anisogamy, the mating cells are called gametes. The female gamete is larger than the male gamete, and usually immotile. Anisogamy remains poorly understood, as there is no fossil record of its emergence. Numerous theories exist as to why anisogamy emerged. Many share a common thread, in that larger female gametes are more likely to survive, and that smaller male gametes are more likely to find other gametes because they can travel faster. Current models often fail to account for why isogamy remains in a few species. Anisogamy appears to have evolved multiple times from isogamy; for example female 478: 687:(genitalia, in animals) have an extreme range of variation among species and even within species. The evolution of female genitalia remains poorly understood compared to male genitalia, reflecting a now-outdated belief that female genitalia are less varied than male genitalia, and thus less useful to study. The difficulty of reaching female genitalia has also complicated their study. New 3D technology has made female genital study simpler. Genitalia evolve very quickly. There are three main hypotheses as to what impacts female genital evolution: lock-and-key (genitals must fit together), 844:
specific functions of each gamete. The differences become apparent during the latter stages of spermatogenesis (for male gametes) and oogenesis (for female gametes)....After oogenetic meiosis, the morphological transformation of the female gamete generally includes development of a large oocyte that does not move around....The ambiguous term "egg" is often applied to oocytes and other fertilizable stages of female gametes....Spermatogenesis and oogenesis most often occur in different individual animals known as males and females respectively.
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Female 1. Denoting the gamete (sex cell) that, during sexual reproduction, fuses with a male gamete in the process of fertilization. Female gametes are generally larger than the male gametes and are usually immotile (see Oosphere; Ovum). 2. (Denoting) an individual organism whose reproductive organs
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splits itself in half. From a strict numbers perspective, a species that is half males/half females can produce half the offspring an asexual population can, because only the females are having offspring. Being male can also carry significant costs, such as in flashy sexual displays in animals (such
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During sexual reproduction, each parent animal must form specialized cells known as gametes...In virtually all animals that reproduce sexually, the gametes occur in two morphologically distinct forms corresponding to male and female. These distinctions in form and structure are related to the
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is primarily used to describe non-human animals, to refer to biologically female humans in an impersonal technical context (e.g., "Females were more likely than males to develop an autoimmune disease"), or to impartially include a range of people without reference to age (e.g.,
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Other than the defining difference in the type of gamete produced, differences between males and females in one lineage cannot always be predicted by differences in another. The concept is not limited to animals; egg cells are produced by
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Katherine Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press...cites the OED's original entry for female in 1895, in which the editors described its usage as "now commonly avoided by good writers, exc. with contemptuous
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as big antlers or colorful feathers), or needing to produce an outsized amount of pollen as a plant in order to get a chance to fertilize a female. Yet despite the costs of being male, there must be some advantage to the process.
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The young of some species develop into one sex or the other depending on local environmental conditions, e.g. the sex of crocodilians is influenced by the temperature of their eggs. Other species (such as the
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Bachtrog, Doris; Mank, Judith E.; Peichel, Catherine L.; Kirkpatrick, Mark; Otto, Sarah P.; Ashman, Tia-Lynn; Hahn, Matthew W.; Kitano, Jun; Mayrose, Itay; Ming, Ray; Perrin, Nicolas (2014-07-01).
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exclusively referred to humans and always indicated that the speaker spoke of a woman or a girl. A century later, the meaning was stretched to include non-human female organisms.
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as a noun, or on the argument that mentioning the sex of the office holder is automatically sexist, unless the sex of the person denoted is relevant in the context.
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in each cell of placental mammals while the paternally derived X is inactivated in marsupials. In birds and some reptiles, by contrast, it is the female which is
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The sex of a particular organism may be determined by genetic or environmental factors, or may naturally change during the course of an organism's life.
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The question of how females evolved is mainly a question of why males evolved. The first organisms reproduced asexually, usually via
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was often considered disparaging, usually on the grounds that it grouped humans with other animals. In the 21st century, the noun
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The origin of these symbols has long been of interest to scholars. Probably none now accepts the interpretation of Scaliger that
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Buck WR & Goffinet B (August 2000). "Morphology and classification of mosses". In Shaw AJ & Goffinet B (ed.).
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without access to the gametes of a male, and vice versa, but in some species females can reproduce by themselves
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for comparison. (Both models have partially shaved body hair to show anatomy, i.e., clean-shaven pubic regions.)
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species, which include humans, in which the female gamete is much larger than the male and has no ability to
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Sex, drugs, and rock and roll: Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree
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and carries a Z and a W chromosome while the male carries two Z chromosomes. In mammals, females can have
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designate not only the egg- and sperm-producing organisms and structures, but also the structures of the
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where they are the same size). The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown.
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Bachtrog D, Mank JE, Peichel CL, Kirkpatrick M, Otto SP, Ashman TL, et al. (July 2014).
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is still used in some contexts, particularly when the sex of the person is relevant, such as
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and was preferred for that reason; however, by 1895, the linguistic fashion had changed, and
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friends, officers, patients, roles, students, workers, and of the female body, sexuality
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In sex determination for mammals, female is the default sex, while in the poplar genus
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with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level),
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The Evolution of Anisogamy: A Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection
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The sex of most mammals, including humans, is genetically determined by the
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In some species, female and hermaphrodite individuals may coexist, a
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Species that are divided into females and males are classified as
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females, which lay eggs. Some non-mammalian species, such as
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as a noun was considered more respectful than calling her a
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in general has some role in female genital evolution.
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where females have XX (as opposed to XY in males) sex
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David E. Sadava, H. Craig Heller, William K. Purves,
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once speculated that the symbol was associated with
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characteristics secondary to the reproductive system
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ovum
gamete
male gamete
sexual reproduction
male
anisogamous
reproduction system
isogamy
sex-determination
sex chromosomes
mammals
humans
X chromosomes
female reproductive systems
characteristics secondary to the reproductive system
mammary glands
gender
gender role
gender identity

Old English
woman
male

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