Category
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woman
thumb|A woman
female organism
thumb|The symbol of the Roman goddess Venus (mythology)|Venus is used to represent the female sex in biology.
mitochondrial Eve
matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans
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X-inactivation
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
gynomorph
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.