Gender&Society (quiz 1 )

• the biological dimension of your gender  and  sexuality. Also referred to as biological sex or physical sex.


  sex
• is a person (or plant or animal) that has both male and female sexual organs.

  Hermaphrodite
• are rare. This is an unusual word for an unusual condition: being a boy and a girl at the same time. This happens to a small number of people who have the reproductive organs of both men and women.

  Hermaphrodites/hermaphroditism
• first woman win sprint double asian games

  mona sulaiman
• filipino retired track and field athlete and coach

  nancy navalta
• • are protein structures which  contain your genetic materials. , used to determine sex

  chromosomes
• XY  sex chromosomes


  male
• XX sex chromosomes


  female
• chromosome tips, repeats, act as sort of biological clock, being whittled down at each mitosis


  telomeres
• middle, highly condensed, also repetitive sequence, region where spindle fibers attach, pulling chromatids apart during mitosis

  centromeres
• the social dimension of one’s sexuality.


  gender
• the belief that heterosexuality is the only natural and acceptable form of human sexuality.

  Heteronormativity
• an individual’s personal sense of having a  particular gender 


  gender identity
• are people whose gender identity is different from the gender they were thought to be at birth.

  transgender
• a person’s identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they are sexually attracted.

  sexual orientation
•  a person’s identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they are typically attracted.

  sexuality