PBS
Nova: How Is Sex Determined?
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Talk About Sex
In this video, John Bohannon and Black Label Movement mix talk and dance to implore honest communication between parents and their kids about sex. [10:43] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Blog: Tiny Critter Has Seven Sexes
Meet the freshwater Tetrahymena, a single-celled creature that has seven possible sexes. This article presents information from recent research that helps explain how the creature reproduces and how its sex is determined.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Advantage of Sex: Sexual Versus Asexual Reproduction
Why did sex evolve? The likely answers, in this essay written for the PBS series "Evolution" by science journalist Matt Ridley, may surprise you.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Sex Linked Hemophilia in the Royal Romanov Family
An animated pedigree clearly explains the way hemophilia was inherited in the Romanov family. Interpreting pedigrees and sex-linked crosses should be much easier to understand after going through this tutorial.
PBS
Nova: How Is Sex Determined?
This site focuses on the first 16 weeks of embryo development when the sex of the child is determined.
Palomar Community College District
Pc: Flashcards for Human Sex Chromosome Abnormalities
A good way to review facts related to sex chromosome abnormalities. Use these helpful flashcards for a test review.
Other
U.s. Department of Health & Human Services: Dating and Sex
This website contains multiple strategies that help adults and students discuss dating and talking about sex.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Sex Linked Inheritance: Drosophila
Here are graphics illustrating an experiment with drosophila fruitflies. Sex-linked inheritance is demonstrated here using eye color alleles on X chromosomes. Site by Access Excellence.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Sex Linked Inheritance
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What determines if a baby is a male or female? Recall that you have 23 pairs of chromosomes-and one of those pairs is the sex chromosomes. Everyone has two sex...
National Association of Social Workers
Nasw: Overview of Same Sex Marriage in the u.s.
The struggle for civil rights and equality in the United States when it comes to legalization of same sex marriage is presented in a report by the National Association of Social Workers. Identify the ethics, domestic union and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.13 Sex Linked Inheritance
Learn about the traits that are linked to genes on the sex chromosomes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sex Ed & Community Values
In this video from Wide Angle, Egyptian men react to a discussion of an initiative in Qatar to include sex education in schools, a sensitive issue in many countries.
TES Global
Tes: Romeo and Juliet: Love, Sex & Marriage Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how Romeo and Juliet feel about love, sex, and marriage including explaining quotes by Juliet on the subject, tracking quotes said by other characters in the play on the subject,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
There are vastly different systems of sex determination among animal life on earth. In this TED Ed presentation biologist, Aaron Reedy, shows us the incredible differences between species when it comes to determination of gender. [5:46]
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Sex Linked Inheritance
This site from the University of Arizona provides great information on a sex-linked inheritance problem set. This is a very good site to practice what you know about sex-linked problems. Each link is a problem.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Sex Linked Inheritance Set 2
This site, provided by The University of Arizona, gives a good set of genetics problems that involve sex-linked genes. Great to review what you know! Links are provided to access the various subjects covered in this problem set.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Sex Linked Genes
This resource will explore sex-linked genes which are a form of genetic linkage that depends on the X and Y sex chromosomes.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Smart Choices About Sex
Examine one's values in regard to sex and sexuality. Explore peer pressure as it relates to sexual activity, and learn ways to combate peer pressure to say no to sex.
Digital History
Digital History: The Supreme Court and Sex Discrimination
From the responsibility of all work places to demonstrate no discrimination towards women in 1971 to Roe v. Wade in 1973, find the journey women took to the U.S. Supreme Court for sex discrimination.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Cell Reproduction, Recombination, Linkage, and Sex Linked Genes
Use these flashcards to review topics in cell reproduction, recombination, linkage, and sex-linked genes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sex and the Single Guppy
Play in our streams and see how exhibitionism has an evolutionary payoff in this simulation of John Endler's famous experiment. Includes background information and discussion questions.
Other
Old Wives' Tales Won't Predict the Sex of Your Baby
This article discusses old wives' tales that deal with predicting the sex of an unborn baby. Learn about the origins of these myths and whether any of them are partially true.
University of Maryland
Early Americas Digital Archive: On the Equality of the Sexes
The complete text of "On the Equality of the Sexes" by Judith Sargent Murray.
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