Inheritance (B2)

Question 1

What are the chromosome combinations that decide whether you’re a male or female?

Answer 1

So a human baby’s gender is determined by the sperm that fertilises the egg cell. The baby will be a girl if it carries an X chromosome. It will be a boy if the fertilising sperm carries a Y chromosome

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Question 2

Who was Gregor Mendel and what did he do?

Answer 2

Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. Mendel’s observations became the foundation of modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in the field of genetics