chromosomes

Cards (7)

  • we all start as female in the womb
  • biological approach argues that it causes a physical different in sex which cases gendered behaviour
  • all normal eggs produced by an ovary as an X chromosome
  • sperm cells then either carry an X or Y chromosome
  • the babies sex is determined by the sperm that fertilises the egg
  • the Y chromosome carries the gene called the sex determining region Y or SRY
  • SRY gene causes testes to develop into X embryo and thes produce androgens