Antonyms for x chromosomex chromo·some

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1. • Sex Chromosome

Princeton's WordNet

1. X chromosomenoun

   the sex chromosome that is present in both sexes: singly in males and doubly in females

   "human females normally have two X chromosomes"

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1. Jan Dumanski:

   There is a correlation between a common and avoidable risk factor, that is smoking, and the most common human mutation -- loss of the Y chromosome, this ... may in part explain why men in general have a shorter life span than women and why smoking is more dangerous for men.

2. Sriram Sankararaman:

   You’re going along the genome and there is the X chromosome or there are genes expressed in testes. Basically, these parts of the genome have less Neanderthal or Denisovan.

3. Arthur Georges:

   We used a bacterial artificial chromosome library to generate and verify sex specific sequence and probes that were important to determine the underlying sex of individuals, a BAC library is constructed by cutting up the dragon DNA, the whole genome, and inserting the fragments into bacterial colonies, one fragment per colony, so you can pull particular dragon sequence out at will.

4. Rod Mitchell:

   This study is particularly neat because it takes advantage of errors that are known to occur during culture of XY cells, which lead to loss of the Y chromosome and subsequent gain of a second X chromosome, resulting in XX cells that are capable of generating live offspring.

5. Sriram Sankararaman:

   We see a lot less compared to the rest of the genome, you’re going along the genome and there is the X chromosome or there are genes expressed in testes. Basically, these parts of the genome have less Neanderthal or Denisovan.

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