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Table Showing the Number of Chromosomes in Man 

 according to various investigators 



which became ten bivalent and two accessories in 

 the primary spermatocytes. The latter pass un- 

 divided to one pole (Fig. 75, A), and hence two classes 

 of spermatozoa result, one with ten ordinary chromo- 

 somes, and the other with ten ordinary and two 

 accessory chromosomes. Winiwarter (1912), on the 

 other hand (Fig. 75, D-E), reports forty-seven 

 chromosomes in the spermatogonia and two classes 

 of spermatozoa, one with twenty-three and the 

 other with twenty-four. The number in the female, 

 according to Winiwarter, is probably forty-eight, 

 and hence all mature eggs are alike so far as chromo- 

 some number is concerned, each being provided 

 with twenty -four. If these data are confirmed, it is 

 evident that sex in man is determined at the time 

 of fertilization and cannot be influenced by changing 

 the environment. 



1 Wilcox doesn't state whether this is the reduced or diploid number. 

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