FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Orgasm, Intellectual Disability, Paramesonephric Duct
12 Feb 2015
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Chapter 5 gender identity and gender roles. Gender the psychological state of being female or male, as influenced by cultural concepts of gender appropriate behaviour. Distinct from anatomic sex, which is based on the physical differences. Aristotle believes anatomical differences were due to the heat of semen during sex, hot males, cold females. When sperm fertilizes an ovum (egg) 23 chromosomes from the male normally combine with. The zygote, the beginning of a new human being, is only . 04 cm long. Chromosomes form to make 23 pairs, 23rd pair is the sex chromosomes. Ovum carries an x, sperm is either y or x. If an x chromosome fertilizes, they embryo will develop as a female (xx), y will be male (xy) By about 5 or 6 weeks, when the embryo is only . 5 1 cm long, it has a pair of sexually undifferentiated gonads, two sets of primitive duct structures called the mullerian (female) and.
