Is gender an inherited or acquired trait?

Answer 1

A woman has XX chromosomes and a man has XY if the sperm produced is Y than the baby is a male if the sperm is an X then the baby is a girl.

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Answer 2

Gender is inherited from your parent's 23rd chromosome. The (XX) chromosome pair is for a female and the (XY) chromosome pair is for a male. You get a (X) chromosome from your mother because she has two (x)'s. Her 23rd chromosome is (XX). It's your father's chromosome that determines what gender you are. His 23rd chromosomes were (XY). If you get an (X) from him, you become a girl. If you get a (Y) chromosome from him, you become a boy. This all happens when your mother's egg is fertilized.

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Answer 3

Sex. Gender is a social science/humnities construct having no meaning in Biology. Distributed sexual traits are well covered in biology without resorting to vapid social science/humanities constructs.

To answer your question.

The default sex in humans is female, it takes the sex determining region on the Y chromosome to make a male. Testosterone release in the uterus begins this complicated process that I will not go into fully here. Naturally, this process is normally distributed in outcome and you get variant results in sexual identification. This could be genetic, environmental, or developmental in nature. Much of the social science conclusions here are too vapid even to be wrong, though they are good at erecting '' straw man '' position that biologists supposedly hold on this area.

Answer 4

Genes are carried on chromosomes...the x and y chromosomes are known as the sex chromosomes and are responsible for determining the sex of a person. Two X's = female, XY= male (in everything except birds, where its opposite: XX= male and XY=female) ....so in a sense, genes determine gender, but really, its the entire x and y chromosomes that determine it...so not sure if this answers the question.

Answer 5

Gender is an inherited trait. This trait comes from the child's parents chromosomes. An acquired trait would a physical characteristic the is developed over time.