In some families, either rural or urban, females are tortured for giving birth to a female child.They do not seem to understand the scientific reason behind the birth of a boy or a girl. In fact the mother is not responsible for the sex of the child and it has been genetically proved that the sex of a newborn is determined by what the child inherits from the father.
(a)State the basis on which the sex of a newborn baby is determined in humans.