Chromosomes

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:12 am

lol

it's pretty funny because i thought i was some kind of mutant, but i guess i'm not quite so special.

/end

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:47 pm

One out of every 2,000 men recieve Klinefeler's syndrome. So it's not THAT unusual.

Also, yes, the Y technically just is a space filler and serves no other real purpose.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:11 pm

the Black Monarch wrote: Having no Y chromosome results in death. The human body cannot survive without X chromosomes.

Goddamn, one typo and the whole meaning of my post is changed!

That should have said X both times. My apologies.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:17 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:One out of every 2,000 men recieve Klinefeler's syndrome. So it's not THAT unusual.

Also, yes, the Y technically just is a space filler and serves no other real purpose.

*bashes head off desk*

Okay. I'll just ask. Where are you getting that? And what kind of evolutionary theory produces an entire chromosome with nothing but junk DNA? Parts of chromosomes of course, but the whole thing? Where is this coming from?

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:18 pm

oh, the doctors have failed us. How much longer must we wait to know wtf is wrong with lyrs???

SSJVegita0609 · Post by **SSJVegita0609** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:53 pm

You know... Many people now believe that George Washington was an XYY

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:53 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:
The Wired Knight wrote:One out of every 2,000 men recieve Klinefeler's syndrome. So it's not THAT unusual.

Also, yes, the Y technically just is a space filler and serves no other real purpose.

*bashes head off desk*

Okay. I'll just ask. Where are you getting that? And what kind of evolutionary theory produces an entire chromosome with nothing but junk DNA? Parts of chromosomes of course, but the whole thing? Where is this coming from?

Probably College Biology and a text book. The Y chromosome is a space filler and encodes for nothing, a lot of DNA is actually junk. And the number was wrong, it's one in every 500-1,000 male births according to the site listed above. The Y chromsome does in fact code for nothing, hell it has no genetic basis to encode for things that females coudl otherwise not recieve. And evolution states that the genetics have gotten more complex but that doesn't mean coding. The Y chromsome is a space filler, hell it can't even be used to determine if one is male because some women have it but it is a piece on the X chromosome (the SrY gene) that identifies the subject as male and tells the body to encode for a male (as all fetuses are essentially female at first but then are activated otherwise. Even the SrY gene isn't a true identifier of sex as it can be inactive and thus even though a woman has a Y chromsome she will still be female if that thing is inactive. So the Y chromsome doesn't even encode for male, it's a small gene on the X chromsome.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:51 pm

rurouni_trelane wrote:Yeah, I wish I had boobies! Cuz then they'd go bouncy bouncy, like this:
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If my boobs got any bigger I wouldn't need porn.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:26 pm

All this talk of chromosomes was making me horny until Cat said he had breasts

Also what are you lyrs... Man, Woman? Sea Creature? Vagina Fish?

~klinky

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:12 am

No need to be such a cocky bastard, TWK, nor to repeat yourself (BTW, that kind of undoes that whole "I'm smarter than you, idiot" thing

).

Point taken. Again, I've been out of college for a million years and have avoided all science due to the lasting scars of failing to get into vet school.

No need to be a bastard, but thank you for the refresher course. Twice.