Below you will find example sentences with "sex determination". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Sex Determination in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: determination
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 21.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "sex determination" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 21.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as about the sex determination test but, ainsworth describes sex determination in the, systems, temperature and system stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with sex workers, sex trafficking and sex work, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with sex determination
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Temperature-dependent sex determination seeAlso Many other sex-determination systems exist. (11 words)
A temperature-dependent sex determination system is found in some reptiles. (11 words)
Sex determination main Sex helps the spread of advantageous traits through recombination. (12 words)
Looking for such a rare reproductive strategy in crocodilian species has been particularly intrigued scientists as these organisms lack sex chromosomes and their sex determination is controlled by the temperature in which eggs develop and hatch. (36 words)
Other systems main 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). (33 words)
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. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Other sex-determination systems Although temperature-dependent sex determination is relatively common, there are many other environmental systems.
Other systems main 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).
Sex determination Cannabis has been described as having one of the most complicated mechanisms of sex determination among the dioecious plants.
Temperature-dependent sex determination seeAlso Many other sex-determination systems exist.
Looking for such a rare reproductive strategy in crocodilian species has been particularly intrigued scientists as these organisms lack sex chromosomes and their sex determination is controlled by the temperature in which eggs develop and hatch.
Because the use of ZW sex determination is varied, it is still unknown how exactly most species determine their sex.
Environmental sex determination preceded the genetically determined systems of birds and mammals; it is thought that a temperature-dependent amniote was the common ancestor of amniotes with sex chromosomes.
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.
In Y-centered sex determination, the SRY gene is not the only gene to have an influence on sex.
Laws and initiatives against sex-selective abortion A sign in an Indian hospital stating that prenatal sex determination is a crime.
Sex determination main Sex helps the spread of advantageous traits through recombination.
The biological cause for an organism developing into one sex or the other is called sex determination.
When the doctor was interrogated, he expressed ignorance about the sex determination test, but said he only conducted the routine sonogrpahy test, Loachan said.
Ainsworth describes sex determination in the genus as using "an X/autosome dosage type".
Aristotle claimed that the male principle was the driver behind sex determination, De Generatione Animalium, 766B 15‑17.
A temperature-dependent sex determination system is found in some reptiles.
At the time, the XY system was the only known system of sex determination.
Beijing: China Population Press, p. 939. Three years later, the Ministry of Health outlawed the use of sex determination techniques, except for in diagnosing hereditary diseases.
He was initially skeptical of Mendel's laws of heredity (as well as the related chromosomal theory of sex determination), which were being considered as a possible basis for natural selection.
However, the actual genetic mechanisms of haplodiploid sex determination may be more complex than simple chromosome number.