In humans which chromosome is responsible for maleness
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y- chromosome is responsible for maleness
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The Y chromosome which is in the set of 22 main chromosomal set of XY (excluding sex chromosomes or allosomes which include for X and X in females and X and Y in males). Humans have a total of 23 pairs of chromosomes which are a set consisting of autosomes which are numbered accordingly to their size from largest to smallest. The Y-Chromosomes have Base pairs approximated to 58 million which contains over 200 sets of genes from which 72 are coded exclusively for proteins. When the Y-Chromosome is defective or non-operational which is also not functional or very small print minimal it is a sign of (mostly the cases of females are reported) with Turner's Syndrome caused due to partial monosomies or the inheritance of Y-chromosomes from a male individual.
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