The human body has 46 chromosomes out of which two chromosomes participate in determining the gender of the baby. What are those chromosomes called?

Sex chromosomes

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Autosomes

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Both A and B

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Neither A nor B

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The correct option is A
Sex chromosomes

The human body has 46 chromosomes of which 44 are called autosomes and 2 are called sex chromosomes. They exist as 44+XX in females and 44+XY in males. These XX and XY are the sex chromosomes which determine the sex of a baby.

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	List I		List II
A	In human beings and a number of other animals, there are two types of chromosomes, ______, and allosomes.	1	44+XY
B	_______ are those chromosomes which control functions of the body, other than sex determination. Allosomes or sex chromosomes are the chromosomes that determine the sex of the individual in unisex organisms.	2	Autosomes
C	Human beings have _____ pairs of chromosomes.	3	23
D	_____ determine the sex of the individual.	4	Sex chromosomes
E	The two sex chromosomes of females are similar and are called _____ chromosomes. They are dissimilar in human males. One is a normal-sized X-chromosome. The other is smaller with a good amount of non-function chromatin. It is called the Y-chromosome.	5	XX
F	The chromosome complement of human females is ______	6	44+XX
G	Human males is _____. Human females are homogametic, i.e., produce only one type of gametes or ova (22 + X). Humans are heterogametic, i.e., they produce two types of gametes sperms, angiosperms, and gymnosperms.	7	Autosomes

The human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes, out of which 22 pairs are autosomes and 1 pair is sex chromosome.

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