Activity: Boy or Girl

Objective
• How sex in humans is determined
Materials
• Pen
• Paper
Procedure
1. Draw a Punnett square which shows the inheritance of the sex
chromosomes. Represent the female sex chromosomes with XX and the
male sex chromosomes with XY.

Q1. What will be the sex of a child produced when an egg is fertilize an egg is
fertilized by a sperm that has a Y chromosome?
Q2. What type of sperm must fertilize an egg to result a female child?
Q3. Based on the Punnett square, what percent of children would you expect to
be male?
Q4. Which sex chromosome is present in both male and female?
Q5. Infer which sex chromosomes determine a person’s sex?