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Explain how sex is determined in the unborn baby.

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Chromosomal sex is determined at the time of fertilization; a chromosome from the sperm cell, either X or Y, fuses with the X chromosome in the egg cell. ... Over the next five weeks, the fetus begins producing hormones that cause its sex organs to grow into either male or female organs.

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