{"id":9049,"date":"2019-05-22T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sex\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:21","slug":"sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In biology, it takes on two meanings: 1. heterogametic sex: the gender that has two different sex chromosomes (e.g., &nbsp;in humans, the male is heterogametic because he has an X and a Y chromosome, while in avian species , the female is heterogametic because she has a W and a Z chromosome); 2. &nbsp;homogametic sex:&nbsp;the gender that has two copies of the same sex chromosome (e.g., in humans, the female is homogametic because she is XX , while in birds, the male is homogametic because he is ZZ).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"chromosome\">Chromosome<\/a>, <a href=\"gender\">Gender<\/a>, <a href=\"gender_identity\">Gender identity<\/a>, <a href=\"own-sex_schema\">Own-sex schema<\/a>, <a href=\"sex_chromosomes\">Sex chromosomes<\/a>, <a href=\"sexually_dimorphic\">Sexually dimorphic<\/a>, <a href=\"sex_ratio\">Sex ratio<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_sexual_selection\">Theory of sexual selection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In biology, it takes on two meanings: 1. heterogametic sex: the gender that has two different sex chromosomes (e.g., &nbsp;in humans, the male is heterogametic because he has an X and a Y chromosome, while in avian species , the female is heterogametic because she has a W and a Z chromosome); 2. &nbsp;homogametic sex:&nbsp;the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/sex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}