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Voluntary social segregation that occurs in late childhood, a period in which a person’s social and personal activities are centered around members of the same gender.  

Incorporation into one’s self-definition the acceptance or an erotic or romantic attraction to a person of one’s sex gender identity; homosexual act.  

Erotic practice or feeling directed toward a member of the same sex homosexual identity.  

A stage of maturation between 12 and 15 years wherein there is a preference for the same sex. It is also called the gang period.  

Preferences for the same sex.  

Structures in males and females that develop prenatally from similar tissue. For example, the penis and clitoris and scrotum and labia majora are homologous organs.  

Genes similarly situated in homologous chromosomes contributing to the same expression or different expression of a character.  

Chromosomes which occur in pairs and are generally similar in size and shape, one having come form the male and one from the female parent. One of a pair of chromosomes that contain genes for the same traits; one is maternal in origin, the other paternal.