Bilateral Gynandromorph

Half she, half he

Today I will share with you about an insect specifically butterflies which possess both the traits of male and female. According to Luke Brown a butterfly expert, the asymmetrical insect was split by a visible line down its body, with different antenna and legs on either side- as if a pair of butterflies had become fused together. He also explained that it had both male and female wing colourings, genitalia, and body shapes. It is indeed a rare sight to have a butterfly which is a perfect split. The question is how this trait takes place. According to scientist they believe that it may happen in insects with two sperms enter a single egg. One sperm fuses with the egg cell's nucleus and develops as a female, while the second sperm develops in the cell's fluid as male, which means that both male and female grow in the same embryo.

The difference of Gynandromorphy and Hermaphroditism is that, hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs but has external characteristics of only one gender while bilateral gynandromorph possessed both the traits of male and female divided in half.

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