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Definition of
sex chromosome noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
sex chromosome
noun
noun
(
biology
)
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a
chromosome
that decides the sex of an animal or a plant
see
X chromosome
,
Y chromosome
See
sex chromosome
in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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