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[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

You are talking about DNA, which is the code that tells how those enzymes
work and which ones turn on, etc.  The fetus starts out female, and as time
goes on, those enzymes -- if certain codes are operating in the DNA -- make
developmental digressions, the result of which is what we generally refer
to as a male.

What is now known about development of the fetus is amazing.  There's a
whole orchestrated cascade of various triggers and chemicals which
accomplish the growth and development of the fetus, and which, in some
cases, cause a diversion to the other gender.  In very rare cases, not all
of these codes activate correctly, and then the fetus, if it survives, can
be observed as possessing characteristics of both genders.

You are absolutely right.  The DNA has within it all of the information to
direct how the fetus will develop in one gender or the other.  It is just
that every fetus starts out as female, no matter where it is going to end
up ultimately.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 5/5/16 1:54 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Also, since all of us are conceived female, and some only become male when
>> a cascade effect of a cocktail of various enzymes works their
>> developmental
>> magic, there's not much difference if one adds one or two more chemicals
>> to
>> the dance.  We're all female to begin with.
>>
>
> That's not the way that I learned it. At least, 99.9% of the time, there's
> an egg and a sperm.  The sperm contains either an x chromosome or a y
> chromosome, not both.  The egg contains an x chromosome, one of two
> possibles (the mother has two matching ones, which divide to produce the
> egg.)  Conception occurs when the egg and the sperm meet: an X matches with
> a y, or with another x, so that if it happens to be a Y sperm, conception
> results in an XY (male) combination, and if it's an X sperm, you get an XX
> combination (female).  So from the moment there's a fertilized egg, it's
> either a girl or a boy, even if it's only one or a few cells, and you can't
> yet tell by looking until much later, unless you want to kill it and have
> an electron microscope handy.
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>