Staff writer
What accounts for the difference between boys and girls? A good answer for an introductory biology 101 exam is, perhaps, that a male has one X and one Y chromosome while a female has two X chromosomes.
But puzzlingly, this is not always true. There are people who have X and Y chromosomes but develop female characteristics. There also are XX males who develop testicles without a Y chromosome.
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