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Why do you think it is necessarily much simpler? Selecting X or Y sperm cells may be easy, if there is some sort of external effect to the genes in those. For
by Peaker 13y ago
Why do you think it is necessarily much simpler?
Selecting X or Y sperm cells may be easy, if there is some sort of external effect to the genes in those. For example, perhaps X causes sperm cells to be more robust to acidity, and the female can select for X by increasing acidity levels.
- venomsnake 13y agoWell ... mostly because we haven't found yet such difference (that I know of) and sperm has been thoroughly studied. IVF in humans can be very telling if number crunched properly - the eggs are extracted and the mother body is out of the equation for a moment. Now if the sex selection/discrimination is population based - it is simpler and easier to make it in the males. If it is per embryo - than you have no choice but make it in the females no matter how complex.