X-chromosomes Sentence Examples

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  • However, females have two X chromosomes and, therefore, have two copies of the Cx32 gene.

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  • Females pass on one or the other of their X chromosomes to their children-sons or daughters.

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  • However, this affects males and females differently because males and females have a different number of X chromosomes.

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  • On the other hand, that same gene must be changed on both of the X-chromosomes in a female for her to be affected.

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  • A female who carries a defective recessive gene on one of her two X chromosomes will not have the disease because she also has one good X chromosome.

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  • Turner syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality occurring only in females in whom one of the X chromosomes is missing or defective.

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  • Because they have two X chromosomes, they are carriers of the disorder if one of their X chromosomes has the gene that causes the condition, while the other X chromosome does not.

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  • A person with two X chromosomes is female, while a person with one X and one Y is male.

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  • Klinefelter syndrome is a condition where one or more extra X-chromosomes are present in a male.

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  • Females have two X chromosomes (the XX combination); males have one X and one Y chromosome (the XY combination).

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  • Boys with several extra X chromosomes have distinctive facial features, more severe retardation, deformities of bony structures, and even more disordered development of male features.

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  • The mother passes one of her two X chromosomes down to her child, and the father passes either an X or a Y chromosome to the child.

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  • In contrast, females have two X chromosomes.

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  • Both men and women have X chromosomes and can take this test.

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  • Women have two X chromosomes and men have an X and a Y chromosome.

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  • In fact, sperm with the X chromosomes are viable longer than their male counterparts.

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  • The female eggs contain only X chromosomes (X is the female chromosome).

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  • Y-carrying sperm move faster than sperm carrying X chromosomes.

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  • For girls, with two X-chromosomes, the odds are that the "normal" X chromosome will compensate for the "fragile" one.

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  • Normal males have both an X and a Y chromosome, and normal females have two X chromosomes.

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