does anyone know if sex in monitors is determined by X and Y chromosomes, or is it the Z W system, or another?
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does anyone know if sex in monitors is determined by X and Y chromosomes, or is it the Z W system, or another?
Monitors have a ZW system, in which the female is the heterogametic sex. So far as know all monitors have 40 pairs of chromosomes.
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