The New Approaches to Understanding and Treating Intersexed Individuals That

question 118

Multiple Choice

The new approaches to understanding and treating intersexed individuals that have been proposed recently (Fausto- Sterling, 2000) are based on the concept of "five sexes," which include all of the following EXCEPT _______________.

• A) "herms"
• B) "merms" and "ferms"
• C) males and females
• D) "andros" and "estros"

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Definitions:

Labeled

Marked with a tag or identifier for purposes of identification or to track a substance in an experiment.

Homoplastic Features

Traits shared by different species due to convergent evolution, not because of a common ancestry.

Correctly Matches

Properly aligns or associates two or more elements based on a set of rules or criteria.

Natural Selection

A mechanism of evolution posited by Charles Darwin, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.