Genetic engineering. Couples can have doctors select a particular sperm for the "ideal" chromosome.
- heyJAYhey:
- I'm not sure I understand how this would even work...
From what I've learned in all my biology classes, gender works like this (this being a very over-simplified version): all human beings with normal sex chromosomes have either XY (male) or XX (female). Children automatically get one X from their mother, and during spermatogenesis the sex cells divide into sperm either carrying an X or Y chromosome. The meeting of the X egg cell and the either X or Y sperm cell determines the gender of the child.
Where in this process does the decision come in?
December 20th, 2010 at 03:50am