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[–]SnowAssMan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No. Scientists have made it confusing. It's not that 'female' is the default, necessarily. Scientists call organisms that reproduce asexually 'female' too. Often these organisms will be practically indistinguishable form females that require males to fertile their ova. The only difference is asexual organisms don't need male organisms to fertilise their eggs. Asexual, or "asexual "female"" is the "default" (because we all evolved from asexual organisms. A remnant from this ancestry is nipples in men).

Sex is defined based on reproductive function. The female of the species provides one reproductive function & the male the other. That's two sexes in humans.

[–]GaiusHelenMohiam 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those are called female because they are clonal lineages descended from females of sexual species. Asexual protists are not called female.