Definitions / Explanation : Sex determination
 

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The establishment of sex through differential development in an individual at the time of zygote formation is called sex determination.

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Assertion : In humans, the gamete contributed by the male determines whether the child produced will be male or female.

Reason : Sex in humans is a polygenic trait depending upon a cumulative effect of some genes on $X-$ chromosome and some on $Y-$ chromosome.

  • [AIIMS 2005]

In man the normal number of chromosomes is

The male human is represented by sex chromo-somes

Sex of a human child is determined by

Select the incorrect pair