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Explain sex determination in humans with line diagram.

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A sex chromosome that carries the genes for male characters is called Y chromosome and one which carries the genes for female characters is called X chromosome.
We have a total of 46 chromosomes. Half of them come from the mother and the rest, from the father.Out of these 46 chromosomes, 44 are autonomies and 2 are sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes are not always a perfect pair.
In females there are 44 autonomies and two X chromosomes, in males there are 44 autonomies, one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. So the chromosomes
In woman are 44+XX, while the chromosomes in man are 44+XY. Let us see the inheritance pattern of X and Y chromosomes.
During gamete formation, the normal diploid chromosome number is halved. This is called the haploid condition. All the eggs of a female have 22+X chromosomes. A male produces two types of sperms-one type bears the 22+X composition and the other, 22+Y. Therefore, in every 100 sperms, 50 have Y chromosomes and 50 have X chromosomes.

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