Question

Aim: To discover how the sex of an offspring can be determined.

Questions:
1) use a genetic diagram to predict the expected ratio of male to female offspring in humans. How does this relate to the experiment?

2) State and interpret the ratio of male to female.
Thats it! thanks

Answer 1

Have you ever heard of a Punnett square?

Answer 2

nope never heard of it

Answer 3

Oke what is the difference in genotype of males and females, any idea?

Answer 4

And I'm talking about chromosomes

Answer 5

well... no i'm new to the topic so basically i'm clueless...

Answer 6

X and Y chromosomes?

Answer 7

yes i came across those when i was reading, XX belongs to the female while XY belongs to the male

Answer 8

Yes, so the genotype for female = XX and the genotype for male = XY

We can put that in a punnett square. It looks like this:

Answer 9

could you fill the 4 missing squares?

Answer 10

again...i'm clueless

Answer 11

You take 1 letter from the top and 1 from the left
So the first square would be:

XX=female

Can you fill in the rest? use the black button in the top right of the drawing to edit it.