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crossbill crossbill
crossbill bird of the genus Loxia, in the finch family. Its bill, crossed at the tips, is specialized for pulling apart pine cones and picking out the seeds. Crossbills are found in the evergreen forests of the Northern Hemisphere, as far south as NW Africa and Guatemala. Two species occur in... Read more
Susan M. Love Susan M. Love
Susan M. Love Susan M. Love (born 1948) feels that too many women succumb to breast cancer every year. A breast cancer specialist, Love believes women are losing control over their condition due to the male centered medical community. Dr. Susan Love believes too many women fall victim to... Read more
gamete gamete
gamete A specialized haploid cell (sometimes called a sex cell) whose nucleus and often cytoplasm fuses with that of another gamete (from the opposite sex or mating type) in the process of fertilization, thus forming a diploid zygote. In the lower plants the male gamete is a motile antherozoid,... Read more
Lupercalia Lupercalia
Lupercalia , ancient Roman festival held annually on Feb. 15. The ceremony of the festival was intended to secure fertility and keep out evil. Two male youths, clad in animal skin, ran around the city slapping passersby with strips of goat skin. Because the youths impersonated male goats (the... Read more
sex sex
sex term used to refer both to the two groups distinguished as males and females, and to the anatomical and physiological characteristics associated with maleness and femaleness. Sex relates to the type of reproduction in which specialized reproductive cells (gametes) form and, when united by ... Read more
prostitution prostitution
prostitution act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. Early History In ancient times and in some primitive societies, prostitution often had religious... Read more
bushbuck bushbuck
bushbuck small, delicate, spiral-horned antelope , Tragelaphus scriptus, of tropical Africa. Bushbucks live in pairs in thick forest, browsing on leaves and shrubs by night and resting during the day. Their chief predator is the leopard. Adult males stand less than 3 ft (90 cm) high at the... Read more
X chromosome X chromosome
X Chromosome The X chromosome occupies an exceptional place in the mammalian genome . Together with the Y chromosome, the X chromosome differentiates the sexes. Males have one X chromosome and a Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. Because of this fundamental genetic difference,... Read more
countertenor countertenor
countertenor a male singing voice in the alto range. Singing in this range requires either a special vocal technique called falsetto, or a high extension of the tenor range. Countertenors were required during the Renaissance and Baroque periods when women were not permitted to sing publicly.... Read more
testis testis
testis or testicle , one of a pair of glands that produce the male reproductive cells, or sperm . In fetal life the testes develop in the abdomen, then descend into an external sac, the scrotum. A testis is composed of about 800 coiled seminiferous tubules whose linings contain cells that... Read more

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