Amniocentesis for sex determination is b | Class 12 Biology Chapter Reproductive Health, Reproductive Health NCERT Solutions

Question: Amniocentesis for sex determination is banned in our country. Is this ban necessary? Comment.

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Amniocentesis is a pre-natal diagnostic technique that is used to determine the sex and metabolic disorders of the developing foetus in the mother’s uterus through the observation of the chromosomal patterns. This method was developed so as to determine any kind of genetic disorder present in the foetus. However, unfortunately, this technique is being misused to detect the sex of the child before birth and the female foetus is then aborted. Thus, to prevent the increasing female foeticides, it is necessary to ban the usage of amniocentesis technique for determining the sex of a child.

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2019-09-23 15:38:57

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2018-11-03 14:35:26

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2018-10-22 10:00:56

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Swadip das
2018-08-26 20:40:39

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Kanishka Saxena
2018-06-01 21:59:41

Enough information for understanding the concept of amniocentosis & the region behind its ban

Kanishka Saxena
2018-06-01 21:58:49

Enough information for understanding the concept of amnicentosis & the region behind its ban

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