Difference Between Male and Female Chromosomes

Each person normally has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome.

1. How do the chromosomes of male and female differ?
2. What is the gender of YY?
3. Can you be a girl with a XY chromosome?
4. What gender is an XXY chromosome?
5. Can an XY female get pregnant?
6. What are the 4 genders?
7. How a baby becomes a boy or girl?
8. Does Y chromosome make baby male?
9. Are XYY males infertile?
10. How many sexes are there?
11. Can a girl have Klinefelter's syndrome?

How do the chromosomes of male and female differ?

​Sex Chromosome

Females have two X chromosomes in their cells, while males have both X and a Y chromosomes in their cells. Egg cells all contain an X chromosome, while sperm cells contain an X or Y chromosome. This arrangement means that it is the male that determines the sex of the offspring when fertilization occurs.

What is the gender of YY?

Males with XYY syndrome have 47 chromosomes because of the extra Y chromosome. This condition is also sometimes called Jacob's syndrome, XYY karyotype, or YY syndrome.

Can you be a girl with a XY chromosome?

XY gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. They typically have normal female external genitalia, and are female.

What gender is an XXY chromosome?

Usually, a female baby has 2 X chromosomes (XX) and a male has 1 X and 1 Y (XY). But in Klinefelter syndrome, a boy is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome (XXY). The X chromosome is not a "female" chromosome and is present in everyone. The presence of a Y chromosome denotes male sex.

Can an XY female get pregnant?

Males and most XY females cannot become pregnant because they don't have a uterus. The uterus is where the fetus develops, and pregnancy isn't possible without it. In most cases, having a Y chromosome means having no uterus, so pregnancy isn't possible.

What are the 4 genders?

The four genders are masculine, feminine, neuter and common.

How a baby becomes a boy or girl?

Men determine the sex of a baby depending on whether their sperm is carrying an X or Y chromosome. An X chromosome combines with the mother's X chromosome to make a baby girl (XX) and a Y chromosome will combine with the mother's to make a boy (XY).

Does Y chromosome make baby male?

The Y chromosome contains a "male-determining gene," the SRY gene, that causes testes to form in the embryo and results in development of external and internal male genitalia. If there is a mutation in the SRY gene, the embryo will develop female genitalia despite having XY chromosomes.

Are XYY males infertile?

Many men with 47,XYY karyotype are fertile in spite of their sex chromosome abnormalities. Some researchers have suggested that the extra Y chromosome is lost before meiosis,^3,6–8 thus conserving fertility in these patients.

How many sexes are there?

Based on the sole criterion of production of reproductive cells, there are two and only two sexes: the female sex, capable of producing large gametes (ovules), and the male sex, which produces small gametes (spermatozoa).

Can a girl have Klinefelter's syndrome?

Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY) results from an additional X chromosome on an XY background; therefore, this condition affects only males.