Pre activity

•Listen to a song about

X and Y chromosomes
 Questions
• How many chromosomes do humans have?
• 46 chromosomes
• How many pairs of chromosomes do each individual have?
• 23 pairs
• What composed the 23rd chromosomes?
• Sex chromosomes
 Questions
• What are the chromosomes of the human sex?
• X and Y
• What are the chromosomes for the female?
• XX
• What are the chromosomes for the male?
• XY
Group Activity:
 Group Activity:

• What is the genotypic ratio of the

chromosomes?
• What is the phenotypic ratio of the
chromosomes?
 Sex Chromosomes
• a chromosome involved with determining the sex of an organism,
typically one of two kinds.
How are sex determined?
 Assessment:
1. How many chromosomes do humans have?
2. What are the two sex chromosomes?
3. If the X chromosomes of a female is fertilized by the X of male, what is their offspring?
4. If the X chromosome of a female is fertilized by the Y of male?
5. Which sex chromosomes is present to both male and female?
6. Draw a punnett square representing the female chromosome XX and the male
chromosome XY.
7. Based on the punnett square, what is the percentage of a female and male offspring?
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 ASSIGNMENT
• WHAT IS A SEX-LINKED
GENES? EXPLAIN AND GIVE
EXAMPLES