2006-11-02 14:56:49 · 4 answers · asked by Steph :-) 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
One of two ways:
Genetic anomaly.... some odd comination of sex-genes make the body develope more than one sexual organ.
Chimaras.... where a male and female fetius fuse together to make one baby with two seprate sets of DNA and two sets of sexual organs.
Ether way will result in a intergender child.... and makes up about 1/100th of all births. (though many are altered at birth to be more male or female rather by the parents or by doctors who don't tell the parents it happened)
Only about 1/10th of the intergender children though two sets of developed sexual organs and can be considered hermaphrodites..... the rest one or both of the sexual organs are underdeveloped and never fully develop.
2006-11-05 19:54:48 · answer #1 · answered by CrazyCat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well being hermaphroditic is an abnormality of having two sex organs which means having both a male and a female sex organ...earthworms are hermaphrodites..i dotn know what causes a human to be hermaphroditic..
2006-11-02 15:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by ruth r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An individual having the reproductive organs and many of the secondary sex characteristics of both sexes.
It may happens due to heriditary (Chromosomal abnormality)
2006-11-02 15:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by purush bio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a genetic defect. People can be born with different abnormalities like extra fingers, fused toes, etc.
2006-11-02 15:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋