Monday 20 May 2013

3.22 describe the determination of the sex of offspring at fertilisation, using a genetic diagram

Genetic diagrams work the same as mono-hybrid inheritance diagrams: showing the mothers and fathers and then the different out comes. The only difference is, they will always be the same because one parent is always male and one parent is always female:
Gender determination

4 comments:

  1. http://www.biologymad.com/geneticsinheritance/geneti4.gif

    this is a more accurate diagram because the ovum only contains 1 X chromosome, rather than 2, but gives the same % overall so it doesn't really matter :)

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  2. Unless you're a male with klinefelter syndrome in which case the diagram does change ;)

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