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‘In human being father is responsible for the sex of child’. Based on the knowledge of chromosomal mechanism of sex determination, substantiate this statement?

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During spermatogenesis, two types of gametes are produced of which 50 percent carry the X- chromosome and the rest 50 percent has Y-chromosome besides the autosomes.

Females produce only one type of ovum with an X- chromosome. In case the ovum fertilises with a sperm carrying X chromosome the zygote develops into a female (XX) and with Y-chromosome results into a male off spring. Thus the genetic makeup of the sperm that determines the sex of the child

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