BIO 2133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karyotype, Mendelian Inheritance, Chromosome

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Things like breasts and penis are called "soft markers" Spindle fibers used to align the chromosomes and to place homologous pairs next to each other. Independent traits like in the mendel pea plants heterozygous combinations. The way it rearranges itself is independent of the other chromosome. Sex chromosomes (x and y) only have cross over at the tips. Homologous pairs line up --> chiasma --> non-sister chromatids swap information --> recombinant chromatids --> more genetic diversity. Usually happens in specific places, in between genes. Half of sperm are x bearing, half are y. Punnett square to produce half girls, half boys. Can have male determining gene carried on the x --> maleness. Sry (= sex determining region of the y chromosome) gene. About in 7th week of development in fetus, sry activates genes and gonads develop as testes. Females = no sry genes, gonads develop as ovaries by default. Even if xy, can have signal produces but no receptor.

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