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If the mother carries the gene for hemophilia on one of her X chromosomes, each of her sons will have a 50% chance of having hemophilia. Although girls rarely develop the symptoms of hemophilia itself, they can be carriers of the disease. In some cases, girls who are carriers can have mild bleeding symptoms.

When this happens, the uterus sheds the extra tissue lining. The blood, tissue, and unfertilized egg leave the uterus, going through the vagina on the way out of the body. This is a menstrual period.

We advocate assigning a boy or girl gender because intersex is not, and will never be, a discrete biological category any more than male or female is, and because assigning an “intersex” gender would unnecessarily traumatize the child.

Sexing Snakes Using Tail Characteristics. Male snakes have a pair of hemipenes (sex organs) that normally sit inside their bodies and are shaped like tubes. They are located just below the cloacal (vent) opening and down along the tail on either side of the snake's midline.Oct 23, 2017

Jesse is a boy's name. It's from the Bible - Jesse was the father of King David. Jessie, with an I, is a girl's name, and is often a short form of Jessica and other names. ... It can go either way, but mostly it's a boy's name and I think it's a good one.

Yes. You do not need permission from a parent or guardian to get birth control. In fact, it is unethical and illegal for clinic workers or health care providers to tell your parents/guardians you were even at the clinic. The agreement to keep your visit private is called a confidentiality agreement.

Conjoined twins are genetically identical, and are, therefore, always the same sex. They develop from the same fertilized egg, and they share the same amniotic cavity and placenta. ... In the case of conjoined twins, a woman only produces a single egg, which does not fully separate after fertilization.

Identical (monozygotic) twins are always of the same sex because they form from a single zygote (fertilized egg) that contains either male (XY) or female (XX) sex chromosomes. ... A set of boy/girl twins can only be fraternal (dizygotic). Boy/girl twins cannot be identical (monozygotic).Oct 23, 2017