PCB 3063 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Color Vision, Reciprocal Cross, Null Allele

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Sexual phenotype depends on the presence of sex chromosomes. In drosophila, the number of x chromosomes matter. But in humans, it would be a male. Xyy condition: non- disjunction of y chromosome in anaphase ii. These individuals are usually very tall and exhibit antisocial behavior. Maleness is the presence of a y chromosome; femaleness is due to the presence of x chromosome. On the x chromosome, there are only a small amount of genes that express the female genotype. Most of the genes code for similar functions. The x chromosome is a bright spot in the nucleus. This is the barr body that has all the inactive genes. In general, only one x chromosome is active. The number of barr bodies is total x chromosomes minus 1. Inactivation of x chromosome and formation of barr body doesn"t happen right away during embryonic development. This affects the initial phenotype of the child.

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