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In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetics traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female types ....
 is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female reproductive roles.

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Sex
Sex

In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetics traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female types ....
 is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female reproductive roles.

The term "sex" may also refer to:

  • Sexual intercourse
    Sexual intercourse

    Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
     and sexual relations
  • Sexual reproduction
    Sexual reproduction

    Sexual reproduction is characterized by processes that pass a Genetic recombination of Genetics material to offspring, resulting in Genetic diversity....
  • Sexual attraction
    Sexual attraction

    Sexual attraction refers to a person's ability to Attractiveness in a sexual or erotic manner the interest of another person.Which aspects of sexual attraction have had greatest influence to humans at different points in time have differed between cultures and regions....
  • Sex symbol
    Sex symbol

    A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, Supermodel, teen idol, or sports star who is found to be sexual attraction by the public or by a substantial niche audience....
  • Human sexuality
    Human sexuality

    Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
    , Human sexual behavior
    Human sexual behavior

    Human sexual behavior or human sexual practices refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their human sexuality. It encompass a wide range of activities such as strategies to find or attract partners , interactions between individuals, physical intimacy or emotional intimacy, and sexual contact....
  • Eroticism
    Eroticism

    Eroticism is an aesthetic focus on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. It is not only the state of arousal and anticipation, but also the attempt through whatever means of representation to incite those feelings....
     (a synonym), as in "sex sells"
  • Chicken sexing
  • Gender
    Gender

    Gender comprises a range of differences between man and woman, extending from the biological to the social. Biologically, the male gender is defined by the presence of a Y-chromosome, and its absence in the female gender....
  • Biological sex, defining male, female, and mating
    Mating

    In biology, mating is the pairing of same-sex, opposite-sex or hermaphrodite organisms for copulation and, in social animals, also to raise their offspring....


Also, writings, videos, music or places:
  • Sex (play)
    Sex (play)

    Sex is a 1926 Play , written by, and starring, Mae West. It was very popular for about a year before the New York City Police Department raided West and her company, charging them with obscenity, despite the fact that 325,000 people had watched it, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts,...
    , a 1926 play by Mae West
  • Sex (book)
    Sex (book)

    Sex is a highly designed coffee table book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven Meisel and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron....
    , a 1992 book by entertainer Madonna and photographer Steven Meisel
  • Sex (film)
    Sex (film)

    Sex is a 1920 in film silent film drama film directed by Fred Niblo. ...
    , a 1920 film directed by Fred Niblo
    Fred Niblo

    Fred Niblo was an United States pioneer film actor, Film director and Film producer.He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska to a France mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg....
  • Sex (TV series)
    Sex (TV series)

    Sex is an Australian television series that ran from 1992 to 1993 on the Nine Network. It was hosted by Sophie Lee in its first season & Pamela Stephenson in its second....
    , an Australian television series that ran on the Nine Network from 1992 to 1993
  • Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

    Sex: The Annabel Chong Story is a Documentary film, directed and produced by Gough Lewis, and edited and filmed by co-creator , which profiles porn star Annabel Chong ....
    , a 1999 documentary film about porn star Annabel Chong
  • SEX (boutique)
    SEX (boutique)

    SEX was a boutique run by Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood at 430 King's Road, London.In October 1971 Malcolm McLaren and his art-school friend Patrick Casey opened a small stall selling original rock & roll vinyl, magazines, clothing and memorabilia from the 1950s in the back room of a shop called Paradise Garage at 430 King's Road in L...
    , a boutique on Kings Road in the Chelsea district of London
  • Sex (Tila Tequila EP)
    Sex (Tila Tequila EP)

    Sex is a studio Extended play, released on March 20, 2007, by Tila Tequila through the Washington-based label The Saturday Team. On July 27, 2007, Italian website MusicBlob revealed that The Saturday Team and distributor Icon Music Entertainment Services sued Tila over breaching her contract related to the album....
    , a Tila Tequila EP
  • Sex, a song by Frank Zappa appearing on the 1983 album The Man from Utopia
    The Man from Utopia

    The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It is a more song-driven, and less conceptual work than many others in Zappa's oeuvre....
    .
  • Sex
    Sex (OOMPH! song)

    "Sex" is the second single from Germany industrial metal group OOMPH! from their album, Sperm ....
    , an OOMPH!
    Oomph!

    OOMPH! is a Germany Neue Deutsche H?rte band that was formed in Wolfsburg, Germany in 1989 and is often considered to be the original NDH band....
    's single.
  • S.E.X. refers to Sports Entertainment Xtreme
    Sports Entertainment Xtreme

    Sports Entertainment Xtreme was a Heel professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#S in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, once led by Vince Russo....
    , a professional wrestling stable
  • Sex (Kath & Kim episode)
    Sex (Kath & Kim episode)

    Sex is the Television pilot of the Australian comedy series Kath & Kim. It first premiered on ABC TV on May 16, 2002. This episode was aired again in Australia on Seven Network on October 21, 2007....
    , the pilot episode of the Australian comedy series     Kath & Kim


From Latin sex "six
6 (number)

6 is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7 .The SI prefix for 10006 is exa , and for its reciprocal atto ....
" (see also numerical prefix
Numerical prefix

Numerical prefixes are usually derived from the words for numbers in various languages, most commonly Greek language and Latin, although this is not always the case....
)
  • Sex, an abbreviation for the constellation Sextans
    Sextans

    Sextans is a minor celestial equator constellation which was introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the sextant , an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations....
  • Sextet
    Sextet

    A sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. It is commonly associated with vocal or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six similar or related objects are considered a single unit....
    : a group of six musicians
  • Sexagenarian: a person who is six decades old
  • Sextuplet: six children born at the same time to the same mother
  • Sexdactyly: a genetic condition which causes people to have 6 fingers instead of the usual 5
  • Sextant
    Sextant

    :For the history and development of the sextant see Reflecting instrument#The sextantA sextant is an measuring instrument generally used to measure the altitude of a astronomical object above the horizon....
    , a measuring instrument in the shape of 1/6 of a circle
  • Sextilis
    Sextilis

    Sextilis was the original Latin name for the sixth month in the Roman calendar. It was renamed Augustus in 8 BC in honor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar because it came after the month of July and because of several fortunate events that occurred in his life during this month: the Battle of Pharsalus, his first admission to...
    , the sixth month of the early Roman calendar


Acronyms:
  • "SEX (computing)
    SEX (computing)

    The acronym SEX redirects here. For other meanings, see Sex .In computing, the SEX assembly language mnemonic has often been used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction set found in the PDP-11 and many other computer architectures....
    , an assembly language mnemonic often used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other computer architectures


Geography:
  • From seax
    Seax

    Seax in Old Saxon stands for knife or cutting tool. In modern archeology , the term seax is used specifically for the typically large knives that were worn by men in the 5th to 11th century, in the region roughly enclosed by Ireland, Scandinavia and Northern Italy....
    , Saxon:
    • Wessex
      Wessex

      West Saxon redirects here. For other meanings of Wessex or West Saxon see Wessex .Wessex , from the Old English Westseaxe , was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century, under the Wessex dynasty....
      , Essex
      Essex

      Essex is a counties of England in the East of England England. The county town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, Essex, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches ....
      , Sussex
      Sussex

      Sussex , from the Old English Su?seaxe , is a Historic counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex....
      , Middlesex
      Middlesex

      Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
  • Sexi
    Sexi

    Sexi was a Phoenicia colony at the present-day site of Almu??car on Spain's Costa Tropical.The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firman Iulium....
    , a Phoenician colony in modern-day Spain


See also

  • Sexus
    Sexus

    Sexus may refer to:*Sex*biological gender*Sexus , a 1949 novel by Henry Miller...
     (a disambiguation page)