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Nova: How Is Sex Determined?

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The sex of an egg cell is set as soon as it is fertilized, but what happens to that cell and the cells it divides into to make a baby boy or a baby girl? In this interactive, see how gonads-which look identical in early-stage embryos-become either testes or ovaries.

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