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  • Y-linked: See sex-linked.
  • yield: The amount of a crop produced per unit of farmland.
  • yolk sac: The structure in most developing animals that becomes the yolk of the egg, but that in the developing mammal gives rise to blood cells and the cells that produce gametes.
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