miércoles, 5 de junio de 2019

Chromosomally speaking, what do you know about sex? Take a quiz to find out. – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Chromosomally speaking, what do you know about sex? Take a quiz to find out. – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.â€‹

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.â€‹

Chromosomally speaking, what do you know about sex? Take a quiz to find out.

BY ALISA ZAPP MACHALEK

Floating letters X and Y to represent chromosomes, coming together to form chromosome configurations XX and XY against a background of rotating double helixes.

Women have two X chromosomes (XX) and men have one X and one Y (XY), right? Not always, as you’ll learn from the quiz below. Men can be XX and women can be XY. And many other combinations of X and Y are possible.

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