when the wife get pregnant.who is the responsebile about the child if he or she is agirl or a boy?
2007-01-26 05:57:43 · 45 answers · asked by areej b 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
The women always provides a x chromosome while the male sperm will provide an x or y chromosome.
XX = girl
XY = boy
2007-01-26 06:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by AW 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The man is responsible for the sex of the baby. Too bad we don't get to play a part in that! A woman has a permanent X chromosome inside her. The man has either an X chromosome, which will be a girl, or a Y chromosome, which wil be a boy. And when they join together...
XX=Girl XY=Boy
Hope this helps!
2007-01-26 06:10:29 · answer #2 · answered by mom*2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the man is. So for those jerks who say it's the wife's fault she didnt give him a boy, it's his doing. Females have XX chromosomes and men have XY. The egg of the female (unfertilized) has an X. When it fuses with a sperm, the sperm has either an X or a Y (hence the man's XY chromosome..he has both, this is also why there are disease linked to men only with the Y), giving the egg either XX (girl) or XY (boy). Hope that makes sense.
2007-01-26 07:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the woman has two X chromosomes and the man has one X and one Y. The man is 100% responsible. The determining factor comes directly from the man.
XX means a girl.
XY means a boy.
So if the man's sperm contributes an X chromosome the the neccesary pair(one from man and one from woman) than the baby is a female. If the Y tham it will be a male.
Then there are some disorders where a child is giving XXY which is a whole nother story.
2007-01-26 06:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by Cloud Nine--Sez YAHH 2 tha hatas 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The man determines the sex of the child. The sperm is what carries all of the traits, etc. The woman carries the egg and she's basically an incubator for 9 months.
2007-01-26 06:07:28 · answer #5 · answered by wrjones559_1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the womans egg is always an X chromosome, whereas the males sperm are X and Y (some of them are little y's and some are little x's). It is my understanding that the little X sperm swim slower but live longer and the little Y sperm swim faster but die sooner. Therefore you could potentially try to determine the sex of your child by determining when you ovulate vs. when you have sex. FYI an X X is a little girl and an XY is a little boy. Hope that helps!
2007-01-26 06:05:55 · answer #6 · answered by katiebug 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The man has both the X and Y chromosomes, and the woman has only X. So it's up to the man to decide the gender of the child, but he can't really control it consciously. (XY=boy, XX=girl)
2007-01-26 06:10:48 · answer #7 · answered by fly_away_with_me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man. When it comes to sex chromosomes, women have XX, while men have XY. During conception, each parent contributes one chromosome. Since women only have XX, we must automatically pass along an X; men can pass along either an X or a Y, and whichever one they pass on is what determines the sex of the baby.
2007-01-26 06:05:57 · answer #8 · answered by Danielle 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The female has two x chromosomes, the Male 1x /1y. Y over powers x. Making the male the desision maker as to what chomosone he'll pass on, the X- making it a Girl or Y making it a Boy.
2007-01-26 06:07:08 · answer #9 · answered by FireOpal86 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The man is responsible for providing the Y chromosome. Women have all X chromosomes in their eggs, then man might have an X or a Y.
2007-01-26 06:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by GirlUdontKnow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋