Question

What are the allosomes and autosomes?

Answer 1

Autosomes are all the chromosomes that are involved in any other function except for sex determination. The genes involved in sex determination are known as allosome. Human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes, of which 22 pairs are autosome and only one pair is an allosome (sex chromosome) having the chromosomes XX (for female) and XY (for male).