Today at USAO I learned something from science class. If anybody knows, science is definitely not my thing but I am trying to keep an open-mind and learn new things.
The specific thing that I learned is that having a girl or boy is not hereditary. Boys do not run in a family and girls don’t run in a family. It is a 50/50 shot every single time. Just like flipping a coin, the probability is about the same.
Everyone knows that the father’s sperm determines the sex of the baby. This does not mean though a certain sex of a child runs in a family more than another.
This is way different from my previous thoughts. My initial thoughts were that because my grandfather had four girls and a boy, that this caused my dad to have five girls. Everyone always says to me “O girls must run in your family or your parents must have been trying for a boy”.
Well let me just say that in both cases they are just wrong. Just because my parents had five daughters doesn’t mean my parents were trying for a son. My goodness, are girls not good enough? This is another subject entirely so I will stop ranting. So, in my family’s case having girls is just ironic. It may seem like it runs in the family but this is an untrue fact.
This is just something that I found quite interesting that changed my entire outlook on how the sex of a baby is determined. This is just one of the things that I learned at USAO today but it was the most interesting in my opinion.
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