Question

What causes a hermaphrodite?

Answer 1

Hermaphrodite

1. Hermaphrodite refers to an animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics.
2. Hermaphrodite plants - Most of the flowering plants( angiosperms) are monoecious, or bisexual, i.e., the same plant has both androecium and gynoecium.
3. Hermaphroditism is a normal condition in invertebrates that enables sexual reproduction where either the partners can act as the female or male.

Causes:

1. In humans with 46, XX hermaphroditism has two XX chromosomes and the ovaries of a woman but has external genitalia that appears to be male.
2. This type of hermaphroditism is usually caused due to the exposure of the female fetus to an excess of male hormones in the womb.
3. The majority of tunicates, mollusks, earthworms, and slugs are hermaphrodites.