Question

Noah is doing a summer internship with the New Orleans Aquarium. He is part of a study investigating climate change on alligator populations in the southern US. Some of his responsibilities include monitoring and recording data about alligator eggs and hatchlings. Over the summer, Noah record the numbers of male and female alligators hatched from different broods of eggs. 5 10
Based on his findings and what you know about TSD, which pattern of TSD do you think the alligators follow? I

Answer 1

Answer:

Many of the details of the Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) behind molecular mechanism is still mysterious and the molecular link between environmental temperature and sex determination patterns is yet to be discovered.

Explanation:

Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), in reptiles, is a sex determination mode in which the incubation temperature during a critical temperature sensitive period (TSP) determines sexual lead of the individual rather than the individual’s genotypic background.