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Question
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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 ?

Solution
A male fruit fly has XY  sex chromosome and Female fowl has ZW sex chromosomes. Since both produce two types of gametes they are called  heterogametic.
The female Friuit fly has XX sex cromosomes and the male fowl has ZZ sex chromosomes . they produce one type of gametes ans so are called homogametic.