Sex

:This article is about sex, meaning the different biological sexes—male, female, etc. For alternate uses, see Sex (disambiguation)

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A sex is one of two specimen categories of species that recombine their genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called genetic recombination. The somewhat similar term gender has more to do with identity than biology. Typically, a species will have two sexes: male and female. The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell) and which bears the offspring. The categories of sex are, therefore, reflective of the reproductive functions that an individual is capable of performing at some point during its life cycle, and not of the mating types, which genetically can be more than two.

Related Topics:
Genetic - Reproduce - Genetic recombination - Gender - Species - Male - Female - Gamete

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