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  4. When an animal has both the characters of male and female it is called :

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Q. When an animal has both the characters of male and female it is called :

Delhi UMET/DPMTDelhi UMET/DPMT 2001

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An individual in which a part of the body is male while the rest of it is female is known as Gynandromorph.
Usually in Drosophila mosaics for the sex chromosome, male part $(XO)$ may range from a small section of the body to half of the body.
A sterile organism whose secondary sex characters are intermediate between males and females of the species is known as intersex.
A weak and almost completely sterile male individual exhibiting more intense secondary sex characters than normal males is known as super male.
A female individual, usually sterile and weak, showing a more intense expression of the secondary sex characters, due to a greacer number of $X$ chromosomes (e.g., $XXX$) than in the normal females $(XX)$ is known as super female.