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What is the diffrence between an autosomeand and a sex chromosome????

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Autosomes don’t carry any genes that determine the sex of an individual. Sex chromosomes carry sex-determining genes. There is one pair of sex chromosomes which is X & Y in all mammals. All the rest (22 pairs in humans) are autosomes.

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