answersLogoWhite

0

Does mitosis decide what sex a baby will be?

Updated: 8/17/2019
User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

Best Answer

It does not. Mitosis does not influence sex cells at all, as they divide through meiosis. The sex of a baby depends on the sperm that fertilizes the egg; roughly half of the sperm carry the "Y" chromosome which results in a male, and half the "X" which results in a female.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Does mitosis decide what sex a baby will be?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Why are mitosis and meisois genetically different?

mitosis is for cell division. meiosois is used when sex cells split to form the cells that are for the baby....


Can eating different foods decide the sex of a baby?

no.


Why did Jamie Lynn Spears decide to have a baby?

Cause She wanted to have unprotected sex and after when the baby is born she will give it to her mom so she will get back to her career


What is the order of fertilization sex cells meiosis zygote mitosis?

The order would be: Meiosis -> sex cells -> fertilization -> zygote -> mitosis Meiosis creates sex cells, called gametes, which combine during fertilization to create a zygote. The zygote then undergoes mitosis.


How does the baby reindeer change into an adult?

It hits puberty and its cells reproduce by mitosis and hormones are released and its reproductive organs grow and it gets a sex drive...


What cell reproduces by mitosis?

Hi, Mitosis produces gametes that are sex cells. Mitosis produces 2 identical cells.


What is meosis and mitosis?

meiosis is where sex cells are made -there are 8 steps in meiosis mitosis is where the nucleus divides -there are 4 steps in mitosis they both make chromosomes


Is Mitosis is used to make sex cells?

No. Meiosis makes sex cells.


What kind of cell go through mitosis?

Somatic (non sex) cells undergo mitosis.


What occurs in plants and animal mitosis or meiosis?

Mitosis. Meiosis is only concerned in sex cells.


What is created by each of the processes in meiosis and mitosis?

meiosis is created from sex cells and mitosis is nucleus


What happens when female human sex cells and male human sex cells combine?

It becomes a baby. They go through something called mitosis where the cell gets copied in to two. Then it continues the process and basically make a organ and different organs make up baby !