X and Y chromosome are the two sex chromosomes in humans. The genes on the sex chromosomes and their downstream factors such as sex hormones act on the tissues of the body and produce the sex difference. Typically, the human genome is composed of twenty three pairs of chromosomes. Twenty two of them are autosomal chromosome pairs and the remaining one is the sex chromosome pair. The sex chromosome pair is composed of a combination of X and Y chromosomes. The main differencebetween X and Y chromosome is that X chromosome is the female sex determining chromosome whereas the Y chromosome is the male sex determining chromosome. In other words Men are Men and Women are Women, end of.
Dec 2021. X and Y Chromosome
