Chromosome
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Women have two copies of that big X
chromosome
; men have the X and, of course, that small copy of the Y. Sorry boys, but it's just a tiny little thing that makes you different.
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And in this scenario, I want to imagine that, in one case, the sperm is carrying a Y chromosome, meeting that X
chromosome
of the egg.
And in the other case, the sperm is carrying an X chromosome, meeting the X
chromosome
of the egg.
So in one instance, you can have somebody who has an XY chromosomal basis, and that SRY gene on the Y
chromosome
tells the proto-gonads, which we all have in the fetal life, to become testes.
And they do some tests and figure out that, instead of having ovaries inside and a uterus, she has testes inside, and she has a Y
chromosome.
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