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HEREDITY AND SEX 



chromosomes produces an individual with fourteen 

 chromosomes. This individual is a female. 



In another species of insect, Lygaeus bicrucis, the male 

 differs from the female, not in having a different 



FIG. 23. 



number of chromosomes as in protenor, but by the 

 occurrence of a pair of different-sized chromosomes. 



The body cells of the male have twelve ordinary 

 chromosomes and two sex chromosomes one larger, 

 X, than the other, Y (Fig. 23, A). 



After synapsis there are six double chromosomes >and 

 the two sex chromosomes, called X and Y (Fig. 23, D). 



