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shall be a male or a female, and in addition we have explained why 

 equal numbers of both sexes are continuously produced. 



How general is the chromosomal mechanism of sex-determina- 



FiG. 78. — Diagram showing chromosome relations in the determination of sex 

 in Drosophila ampelophila. (From Babcock and Clausen.) 



tion? — "To what extent," says E. B. Wilson, "sex may be determined 

 by an automatically operating nuclear mechanism such as has been 

 here described is unknown; but a mechanism that exists in the same 



