At 4/18/05 01:01 PM, altanese_mistress wrote:
Its called a 'clitoris' You see, while in the early fetal stages, the child's gender is still undecided; they don't yet have ovaries or testes, but they do have a smaaaaaall penis. Now, if the Y (or female) gene is dominant, then the penis stays very small. As it does in some cases when the X (or male) gene is dominant.
Actually it is decided when the baby is growing inside their mother. Actually, it is all decided when the sperm cell reaches the egg. That's when the X and the Y, or the Y and the Y come together. If it has a X and a Y chromosome, it is a male, if it has two Y chromosomes, it is a female. How do you think they can see if it is male or female before birth? yes, because they can see the genitels at some stage, so no, you are wrong at two points:
1) It isn't decided at birth, but way before that
2) It isn't that if the Y is dominant, or the X is dominant, it's about the combination of those two chromosomes