The role of chromosomes and hormones in sex and gender

Question 1

What are chromosomes?

Answer 1

The X shaped bodies that carry all the genetic information (DNA) for an organism

Question 2

What are hormones?

Answer 2

The bodies chemical messengers, that travel in the bloodstream, influencing many different processes, including mood and stress.

Question 3

What is an intersex person?

Answer 3

Someone who is neither distinctly male nor female because of a mismatch, for example chromosomes and genitals.

Question 4

Someone with Klinefelter’s syndrome has what chromosome configuration?

Answer 4

XXY

Question 5

What is the rate of Klinefelter’s syndrome?

Answer 5

1 in 1000 males

Question 6

Someone with Klinefelter’s syndrome appears to be 1)_____ and has a 2)______

Answer 6

1) male

2) penis

Question 7

Name the phsyical characteristics of someone with Klinefelter’s syndrome

Answer 7

1) taller than average
2) less muscular coordination than average
3) look less masculine (due to lower levels of testosterone)
4) less facial hair
5) broader hips
6) possible breast tissue
7) often infertile

Question 8

Someone with Turner’s syndrome has what chromosome configuration?

Answer 8

XO (second chromosome is either partially or completely missing)

Question 9

What is the rate of Turner’s syndrome?

Answer 9

1 in 2000 females at birth

Question 10

Someone with Turner’s syndrome has a 1)_____ and a 2)______

Answer 10

1) vagina

2) womb

Question 11

Name the phsyical characteristics of someone with Turner’s syndrome

Answer 11

1) shorter than average
2) lack of monthly periods (due to underdeveloped ovaries)
3) small lower jaw
4) webbed neck
5) narrow hips
6) misshapen internal organs
no two XO females have the same characteristics

Question 12

Most gender 1)__________ is actually governed by 2)____________

Answer 12

1) development

2) hormones

Question 13

Oxytocin is known as the ‘____’ hormone

Answer 13

love