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The male fruit fly and female fowl are heterogametic while the female fruit fly and the male fowl are homogametic. Why are they called so ?

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Male fruit fly and female fowl are heterogametic as they follow the XX-Xy and ZZ-ZW mechanism of sex determination. That is why fruit fly male fowl are homogametic.
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