XY sex - determination system - wikipedia XY sex - determination system Drosophila sex - chromosomes Pollen cones of a male Ginkgo biloba tree, a dioecious species Ovules of a female Ginkgo biloba tree Part of a series on Sex Biological terms Sexual dimorphism Sexual differentiation Feminization Virilization Sex - determination system XY X0 ZW Z0 Temperature - dependent Haplodiploidy Heterogametic sex Homogametic sex Sex chromosome X chromosome Y chromosome Testis - determining factor Hermaphrodite Sequential hermaphroditism Intersex Sexual reproduction Evolution of sexual reproduction Anisogamy Isogamy Germ cell Meiosis Gametogenesis Spermatogenesis Oogenesis Gamete spermatozoon ovum Fertilization External fertilization Internal fertilization Sexual selection Plant reproduction Fungal reproduction Sexual reproduction in animals Sexual intercourse Copulation Human reproduction Sexuality Plant sexuality Animal sexuality Human sexuality Mechanics Differentiation Activity Sex portal Biology portal The XY sex - determination system is the sex - determination system found in humans, most other mammals, some insects ( Drosophila ), some snakes, and some plants ( Ginkgo ). In this system, the sex of an individual is determined by a pair of sex chromosomes. Females typically have two of the same kind of sex chromosome ( XX ), and are called the homogametic sex. Males typically have two different kinds of sex chromosomes ( XY ), and are called the heterogametic sex. Exceptions to this are cases of XX males or XY females, or other syndromes. The XY system contrasts in several ways with the ZW sex - determination system found in birds, some insects, many reptiles, and various other animals, in which the heterogametic sex is female. It had been thought for several decades that in all snakes sex was determined by the ZW system, but there had been observations of unexpected effects in the genetics of species in the families Boidae and Pythonidae ; for example, parthenogenic reproduction produced only females rather than males, which is the opposite of what is to be expected in the ZW system. In the early years of the 21st century such observations prompted research that demonstrated that all pythons and boas so far investigated definitely have the XY system of sex determination. A temperature - dependent sex determination system is found in some reptiles. Contents 1 Mechanisms 1.1 Humans 1.2 Other animals 1.3 Other systems 2 Influences 2.1 Genetic 2.1. 1 Implications 2.2 Maternal 3 History 3.1 Ancient ideas on sex determination 3.2 20th century genetics 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Mechanisms All animals have a set of DNA coding for genes present on chromosomes. In humans, most mammals, and some other species, two of the chromosomes, called the X chromosome and Y chromosome, code for sex. In these species, one or more genes are present on their Y chromosome that determine maleness. In this process, an X chromosome and a Y chromosome act to determine the sex of offspring, often due to genes located on the Y chromosome that code for maleness. Offspring have two sex chromosomes : an offspring with two X chromosomes will develop female characteristics, and an offspring with an X and a Y chromosome will develop male characteristics. Humans Human male XY chromosomes after G - banding In humans, half of spermatozoons carry X chromosome and the other half Y chromosome. A single gene ( SRY ) present on the Y chromosome acts as a signal to set the developmental pathway towards maleness. Presence of this gene starts off the process of virilization. This and other factors result in the sex differences in humans. The cells in females, with two X chromosomes, undergo X-inactivation, in which one of the two X chromosomes is inactivated. The inactivated X chromosome remains within a cell as a Barr body. Humans, as well as some other organisms, can have a chromosomal arrangement that is contrary to their phenotypic sex ; for example, XX males or XY females ( see androgen insensitivity syndrome ). Additionally, an abnormal number of sex chromosomes ( aneuploidy ) may be present, such as Turner 's syndrome, in which a single X chromosome is present, and Klinefelter 's syndrome, in which two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome are present, XYY syndrome and XXYY syndrome. Other less common chromosomal arrangements include : triple X syndrome, 48, XXXX, and 49, XXXXX. Other animals In most mammals, sex is determined by presence of the Y chromosome. `` Female '' is the default sex, due to the absence of the Y chromosome. In the 1930s, Alfred Jost determined that the presence of testosterone was required for Wolffian duct development in the male rabbit. SRY is a sex - determining gene on the Y chromosome in the therians ( placental mammals and marsupials ). Non-human mammals use several genes on the Y chromosome. Not all male - specific genes are located on the Y chromosome. Other species ( including most Drosophila species ) use the presence of two X chromosomes to determine femaleness. One X chromosome gives putative maleness. The presence of Y chromosome genes is required for normal male development. Other systems Main article : Sex determination system Birds and many insects have a similar system of sex determination ( ZW sex - determination system ), in which it is the females that are heterogametic ( ZW ), while males are homogametic ( ZZ ). Many insects of the order Hymenoptera instead have a system ( the haplo - diploid sex - determination system ), where the males are haploid individuals ( which have just one chromosome of each type ), while the females are diploid ( with chromosomes appearing in pairs ). Some other insects have the X0 sex - determination system, where just one chromosome type appears in pairs for the female but alone in the males, while all other chromosomes appear in pairs in both sexes. Influences Genetic PBB Protein SRY image It has long been believed that the female form was the default template for the mammalian fetuses of both sexes. After the discovery of the testis - determining gene SRY, many scientists shifted to the theory that the genetic mechanism that causes a fetus to develop into a male form was initiated by the SRY gene, which was thought to be responsible for the production of testosterone and its overall effects on body and brain development. This perspective still shares the classical way of thinking ; that in order to produce two sexes, nature has developed a default female pathway and an active pathway by which male genes would initiate the process of determining a male sex, as something that is developed in addition to and based on the default female form. However, In an interview for the Rediscovering Biology website, researcher Eric Vilain described how the paradigm changed since the discovery of the SRY gene : For a long time we thought that SRY would activate a cascade of male genes. It turns out that the sex determination pathway is probably more complicated and SRY may in fact inhibit some anti-male genes. The idea is instead of having a simplistic mechanism by which you have pro-male genes going all the way to make a male, in fact there is a solid balance between pro-male genes and anti-male genes and if there is a little too much of anti-male genes, there may be a female born and if there is a little too much of pro-male genes then there will be a male born. We ( are ) entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it 's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simple linear pathway of genes going one after the other, which makes it very fascinating but very complicated to study. In mammals, including humans, the SRY gene is responsible with triggering the development of non-differentiated gonads into testes, rather than ovaries. However, there are cases in which testes can develop in the absence of an SRY gene ( see sex reversal ). In these cases, the SOX9 gene, involved in the development of testes, can induce their development without the aid of SRY. In the absence of SRY and SOX9, no testes can develop and the path is clear for the development of ovaries. Even so, the absence of the SRY gene or the silencing of the SOX9 gene are not enough to trigger sexual differentiation of a fetus in the female direction. A recent finding suggests that ovary development and maintenance is an active process, regulated by the expression of a `` pro-female '' gene, FOXL2. In an interview for the TimesOnline edition, study co-author Robin Lovell - Badge explained the significance of the discovery : We take it for granted that we maintain the sex we are born with, including whether we have testes or ovaries. But this work shows that the activity of a single gene, FOXL2, is all that prevents adult ovary cells turning into cells found in testes. Implications Looking into the genetic determinants of human sex can have wide - ranging consequences. Scientists have been studying different sex determination systems in fruit flies and animal models to attempt an understanding of how the genetics of sexual differentiation can influence biological processes like reproduction, ageing and disease. Maternal In humans and many other species of animals, the father determines the sex of the child. In the XY sex - determination system, the female - provided ovum contributes an X chromosome and the male - provided sperm contributes either an X chromosome or a Y chromosome, resulting in female ( XX ) or male ( XY ) offspring, respectively. Hormone levels in the male parent affect the sex ratio of sperm in humans. Maternal influences also impact which sperm are more likely to achieve conception. Human ova, like those of other mammals, are covered with a thick translucent layer called the zona pellucida, which the sperm must penetrate to fertilize the egg. Once viewed simply as an impediment to fertilization, recent research indicates the zona pellucida may instead function as a sophisticated biological security system that chemically controls the entry of the sperm into the egg and protects the fertilized egg from additional sperm. Recent research indicates that human ova may produce a chemical which appears to attract sperm and influence their swimming motion. However, not all sperm are positively impacted ; some appear to remain uninfluenced and some actually move away from the egg. Maternal influences may also be possible that affect sex determination in such a way as to produce fraternal twins equally weighted between one male and one female. The time at which insemination occurs during the oestrus cycle has been found to affect the sex ratio of the offspring of humans, cattle, hamsters, and other mammals. Hormonal and pH conditions within the female reproductive tract vary with time, and this affects the sex ratio of the sperm that reach the egg. Sex - specific mortality of embryos also occurs. History Ancient ideas on sex determination Since ancient times, people have believed that the sex of an infant is determined by how much heat a man 's sperm had during insemination. Aristotle wrote that :... the semen of the male differs from the corresponding secretion of the female in that it contains a principle within itself of such a kind as to set up movements also in the embryo and to concoct thoroughly the ultimate nourishment, whereas the secretion of the female contains material alone. If, then, the male element prevails it draws the female element into itself, but if it is prevailed over it changes into the opposite or is destroyed. Aristotle claimed that the male principle was the driver behind sex determination, such that if the male principle was insufficiently expressed during reproduction, the fetus would develop as a female. 20th century genetics Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson are credited with independently discovering, in 1905, the chromosomal XY sex - determination system, i.e. the fact that males have XY sex chromosomes and females have XX sex chromosomes. The first clues to the existence of a factor that determines the development of testis in mammals came from experiments carried out by Alfred Jost, who castrated embryonic rabbits in utero and noticed that they all developed as female. In 1959, C.E. Ford and his team, in the wake of Jost 's experiments, discovered that the Y chromosome was needed for a fetus to develop as male when they examined patients with Turner 's syndrome, who grew up as phenotypic females, and found them to be X0 ( hemizygous for X and no Y ). At the same time, Jacob & Strong described a case of a patient with Klinefelter syndrome ( XXY ), which implicated the presence of a Y chromosome in development of maleness. All these observations lead to a consensus that a dominant gene that determines testis development ( TDF ) must exist on the human Y chromosome. The search for this testis - determining factor ( TDF ) led a team of scientists in 1990 to discover a region of the Y chromosome that is necessary for the male sex determination, which was named SRY ( sex - determining region of the Y chromosome ). See also Intersexuality for information on variations in human sexual forms Sexual differentiation ( human ) Y - chromosomal Adam Sex Determination in Silene References Jump up ^ Gamble, Tony, Castoe, Todd A., Nielsen, Stuart V., Banks, Jaison L., Card, Daren C., Schield, Drew R., Schuett, Gordon W., Booth, Warren. The Discovery of XY Sex Chromosomes in a Boa and Python. 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Question: which type of chromosome does the female parent give to its offspring
Answer: X chromosomes