Female

thumb|A woman

thumb|The symbol of the Roman goddess Venus (mythology)|Venus is used to represent the female sex in biology.

matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans

thumb|right|The coloration of tortoiseshell cats is a visible manifestation of X-inactivation. The black and orange [[alleles of a fur coloration gene reside on the X chromosome. For any given patch of fur, the inactivation of an X chromosome that carries one allele results in the fur color of the other, active allele.]] thumb|The process and possible outcomes of random X-chromosome inactivation in female human embryonic cells undergoing [[mitosis. 1.Early stage embryonic cell of a female human 2.Maternal X chromosome 3.Paternal X chromosome 4.Mitosis and random X-chromosome inactivation e

thumb|230px|A gynomorphic sculpture of Bacchus, Roman Imperial (2nd century CE), at the [[Musée du Louvre.]] Gynomorph is a word used to describe an organism with female physical characteristics.