Why do you call a large rock orbiting the sun a asteroid?

The term "asteroid" has come to mean any small, rocky object in orbit around the Sun. The orbits between Mars and Jupiter contain lots of asteroids because there's not a planet there to clear that zone. ... Thus Ceres has been "promoted" to a dwarf planet.Jun 6, 2016

Explanation:

answer; a male inherits only one allele of the x-linked gene controlling hair color;

tsd is temerature dependent sex determination.

tsd: it is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperature experienced during embryonic/ larval development (ambient temperature for development) determine the sex of the offspring.

crocodile displays the tsd where the ambient temperature of the developing egg determines the individual's sex. for example in the american alligator's eggs, incubation at 33 ºc produces mostly males, while incubation at 30 ºc produces mostly females. so if the american alligator's egg will get the ambient temperature (33 degree celcius)during embryonic development from egg, the offspring will be male and same for the female sex determination.