who exits sex- linked traits more-- females or males?
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I don't know what you mean by "exits."  Women are more likely to carry them, and men are more likely to exhibit them.  The Y chromosome has very, very, very little genetic information on it whatsoever, relative to other chromosomes.  The X has a lot.  Most sex-linked traits are recessive traits that are more likely to surface in men, who have only one copy of the X chromosome.  But women, with two Xs, are twice as likely to carry such a gene.
275799
They are such multi-faceted beings !!!\n\nFemale dysfunction.  Despite significant anatomic and embryologic parallels between men and women, the multifaceted nature of female dysfunction clearly is distinct from that of the male.
167234
Probably has to do with x & Y chromosomes has to do with genetics to make baby a boy or girl
513537
I think there may be slightly more females in YA than males, about the same as in the world itself.  It depends on the category - seems to be more males in some categories, more females in others.
1016963
I have the same problem. My understanding of genetics does not support a "gay gene"; however it is very possible and more frequent then most people think that certain males are exposed to more female hormones than normal and vice versa for females. These hormones (similar to how animals are attracted to one another) can influence whether or not and individual is attracted to males or females. Also (using males as an example) if a boy was exposed to or born with more female hormones and thus acts more feminine, he will most likely be attracted to someone who is opposite to him (hence masculine). It is more natural for feminine and masculine to attract rather than simply male or female. For example I am naturally more attratced to masculine guys, rather than feminine guys. I am not attracted to masculine women ("dykes") simply because society has taught me not to be attracted to women from birth, so my sexual preference is trained towards males...
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because if its y linked then women can't have it because women don't have a Y chromosome while if its X linked it is usually recessive so males don't have a dominate allele to counteract it so the recessive shows through and to have two X recessive alleles in one cell is very rare because the male has to have the recessive phenotype and the female has to have a heterozygous genotype. Sorry for the in depth language.
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Sexual selection. Large breasts and wide hips suggest that the female is well-capable of bearing children. Therefore, men choose such females as their partners, and thusly, the genes for these qualities are passed down to the children.
337231
"WOMEN" or "BOYS"\n\nHoly Sh_t, even your question is loaded.
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homozygous-XX-female\nheterozygous-XY-male
338735
I don't think there's any scientific proof that familial bonds are stronger based upon gender or relationship.  My best guess is that it depends upon the individuals and their shared upbringing.
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No. remember the sex depends on the sperm so that means that if a sperm carring the girl coding fertilizes the egg then it will be a girl but if one carring the boy coding fertilizes the egg then it will be a boy. \n\nAdded to this is that each sperm carries different coding so besides there being male and female sperm there are differences among them all.
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My only guess is that biologically they are much more visual than women are and need tangible evidence of there existance. Feats accomplished and places gone and things mastered provides that sort of evidence.\n\nOr the short answer: Testosterone.
634333
It's because when you were a very little girl and your parents played "This Piggy Went To The Market", they kept pulling too hard on your 2nd toe. Seriously, it's not gender linked. It's genetically linked with your ancestors.
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Generally speaking it is a matter of statistics and genetics, and actually statistically speaking men are on average 5 points ahead of the fairer sex IQ wise. \n   In all actuallity boys and girls up to age 14 have no measurable difference statistically wise in IQ, however after that age there is a consistent widening in the IQ gap between men and women up to the age of 45, where IQ generally tend to stabalize.\n    A generally accepted biological explanation, after extensive simplification, is that males evoveled their mathamatical and spatial abillity becuase of the need of those skills for hunting, navigating, and competing for natural resources (think cave-man). Women's 'mental aptitude' on the other hand dealt with teaching, communicating, and raising and caring for offspring (think cave-woman). So wait, does this mean that women are better at communicating then men?\n The answer is not surprisingly an emphatic YES! In fact a majority of studies found that on average women are indeed better at commicating then men, and have consistently shown better verbal and writing skills in all of the basic aptiude tests (think SAT and ASVAB) used. So why do men have higher IQ's, well becuase most IQ tests stress memory and spatial development, most likely becuase it is extremely difficult to accurately measure anything related to imagination and creativity.\n   So what is the answer..well officially its men, but thats what just the book says. There are many other factors to take into consideration when determining how 'smart' someone is than just a test: drive, motivation, determination. Honestly it all comes down to the person...
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I think you will find this article interesting.  There was a typo in the title; it is about the shrinkage of the Y chromosome over evolution, but was titled "Disappearing X"\n\nSaturday 8 November  2003  \n\nSummary \n\nImagine a world without men. It's entirely possible. According to Professor Brian Sykes, the Y chromosome, which determines maleness, will disappear in 100,000 to 200,000 years - not long, on an evolutionary scale. And, is it possible that men with the same surname could have identical Y chromosomes?\n\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s977072.htm\n________________\n\n\n\neg:\n\n"Bryan Sykes: There’s no doubt that the Y chromosome over many millions of years has been deteriorating, it has lost most of its genes, and that’s for two reasons really. The first is that once the Y chromosome decided sex then it became isolated from its former partner, the X chromosome, and all the other chromosomes really, and was no longer able to take part in sexual recombination ironically, since it decides sex. And that isolation has meant that it’s very bad at repairing any mutations, it doesn’t have any reference points with which to compare and mend mutations that occur on the Y chromosome – so that’s one thing. The second thing, that unlike all the other chromosomes, the Y chromosome is restricted every generation, it spends all its time in the testes and that is a very dangerous place for DNA to be. The very high levels of free radicals and other damaging events, there’s a high rate of duplication of DNA, duplication and cell division, and so the Y chromosome alone is restricted in every generation to this hotbed of mutation and it also can’t repair itself. So those two things together have made it deteriorate to such that there are only 27 genes left. \n\nNow, what will happen in the future? Well, I think it’s inevitable and a lot of other geneticists would agree with me, that it will eventually disappear, but the question is, when? ..."\n\n___________\n\nBTW, if surname matches Y chromosome that well, I suspect that there was not as much marital infidelity as is sometimes said to occur.  After all, it takes just one such lapse (that results in a son), in a long line of descendants, and that Y chromosome is shifted to a different surname, in subsequent generations.\n\nAnyhow, mapping the Y leads back to our last common male ancestor, in a similar way to mapping the mitochondrial DNA leads back to our last common female ancestor.  This sometimes leads to interesting discoveries eg that male adventurers might have collected females from other populations, en route to colonising new territory, as is thought to have happened in the past history of Maoris in New Zealand:\n\n1.  News in Science - Maori men and women from different homelands - 27/03/2003\n\nSummary: ... A New Zealand Warrior and his Wife an engraving from the journal of Captain James Cook's ... s 1784 visit on Endeavour Pic: State Library of NSW\n\nThe male and female ancestors of today s Maori people of New Zealand originated from different parts of the world, molecular biologists ... Whyte has now identified 10 haplotypes in New Zealand Maori. ...\n\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s817069.htm - 24k - [ html ] - Cached - 27 Mar 2003
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To answer your question....yes.  The egg cells of the female all carry X chromosomes.  The sperm cells can carry either X or Y.  So basically, the sex of a mammal depends on the male, and which particular sperm fertilizes the egg (X).  If an X sperm fertilizes the egg, you have XX, which is a female, and if a Y sperm fertilizes it, you have XY, which is male.  This is why some sex-linked traits are more visible in males, such as color blindness, but that's a whole different post.
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Nothing, really.  The only difference between a male and a female is that males have more testosterone, which can go to their head real fast.