Identification: Sex
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Sex is an individual quality determined by biology (chromosomes and hormones). Sex is biological; gender is socially constructed. Sex is innate; gender is learned. Sex is unchanging or stable (possible exception—sex change surgery.)
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