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Genetic Phenomena > Sex Determination Processes
Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Sexual Development > Sex Determination Processes
Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Sexual Development > Sex Determination Processes
... > Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Reproduction > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Organogenesis > Sex Determination Processes
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Organogenesis > Sex Determination Processes

Preferred term

Sex Determination Processes  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Determination Process, Sex
  • Genetics, Sex Determination
  • Process, Sex Determination
  • Sex Determination Genetic Processes
  • Sex Determination Genetics
  • Sex Determination Process

Note

  • do not confuse with SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS which is validation of sex by examination of gonads or genetic tests; natural sex reversal processes go here (note entry terms PROTANDRY and PROTOGYNY); HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS is also available

Scope note

  • The mechanisms by which the SEX of an individual's GONADS are fixed.

History note

  • 2011 (1998)

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019849

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