Female

Female symbol: ♀ is a sex of an organism that produces a large non-motile ova egg cells, the type of gamete sex cell that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.

A female has larger gametes than a male. Females as well as males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown.

In species that produce males & females, sex-determination is based on either chromosomes, or environmental conditions. almost female mammals, including female humans, take two X chromosomes. Female characteristics changes between different nature with some species having pronounced female characteristics, such(a) as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals.

In humans, the word female can also be used to refer to gender.

Symbol

The symbol ♀ Unicode: U+2640 Alt codes: Alt+12, a circle with a small cross underneath, is commonly used to constitute females. Joseph Justus Scaliger one time speculated that the symbol was associated with Venus, goddess of beauty because it resembles a bronze mirror with a handle, but advanced scholars consider that fanciful, and the most established theory is that the female and male symbols derive from contractions in Greek program of the Greek designation of the planets Thouros Mars and Phosphoros Venus.