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The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 X chromosome, a sex chromosome that in humans and many other species is present in both sexes. It appears singly in the cells of normal males and in duplicate in the cells of normal females. The chromosome is carried as a sex determinant by all of the ...
October 1, 1996; The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia

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