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How is the sex of a child determined in human beings? explain with the chart?
Asked by yasho1710 | 25 Mar, 2010, 11:58: AM
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The sex of the child is determined genetically in humans.

Women have a perfect pair of sex chromosomes i.e. XX whereas men have a mismatched pair i.e. XY. All eggs produced will carry the X chromosome. Half of the sperms will carry Y chromosome and the other half will carry X chromosome.

During fertilisation, when the egg fuses with a sperm carrying Y chromosome, a boy will be formed On the other hand, when the egg fuses with a sperm carrying X chromosome, the offspring will be a girl child.

 

Parents          XX (Female)                                XY(Male)

                          ↓                                                         ↓

Gametes          X                                                    X          Y

Female →

Male↓

 X X
X XX (female) XX(female)
Y XY (male) XY (male)

 

Answered by | 25 Mar, 2010, 10:54: PM
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