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Y Chromosome repairs own defects
Posted: 6/19/2003, 11:29 am
by mosaik
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030618_1120.html
ABC News wrote:Broken genes tend to erode away over eons. But because most chromosomes are inherited in pairs, with one coming from Mom and the other from Dad, they can swap corresponding pieces of themselves, enabling the species as a whole get rid of damaged genes.
But the Y chromosome comes by itself. It cannot trade appreciable amounts of DNA with its partner, the X chromosome, so it cannot get rid of damaged genes that way. That has led some scientists to regard it as a "rotting chromosome" that might disappear millions of years from now.
The new work found that the Y chromosome follows a do-it-yourself strategy: It carries backup copies of important genes, and it uses one copy to fix flaws in the other.
Just like life. The female gene goes to it's partner when something is broken, the male gene fixes it on it's own.
i would just like to point out that this research in fact illustrates that men are not going to become extinct and we are not genetically inferior.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 11:32 am
by joe_canadian
you mean there's an upshot to being male? wow.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 11:33 am
by Axtech
Um... sure...
I'm studying for a biology exam right now. I'm actually in the genes unit at this moment. I'm going to forget I ever read this. It will just confuse me.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 11:41 am
by mosaik
that's right. our genes rule.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 11:46 am
by starseed_10
maybe we should write articles bitching about how much girls suck because guys have better genes, and how we are completely superior as a group.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 12:00 pm
by Sufjan Stevens
Yeah, we could write those articles, but we'd have all these groups bothering the hell out of us, and still claming we're inferior in every way, so really, it would be more of a problem than a solution.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 2:16 pm
by happening fish
I was playing sonic the hedgehog last night with my friend and i was losing and he was like, haha, that's because you don't have a penis.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 2:17 pm
by Axtech
It's true. Extra digits make it easier to hit the buttons fast.
You were playing in the nude, right?
Posted: 6/19/2003, 2:21 pm
by happening fish
Posted: 6/19/2003, 2:23 pm
by I AM ME
Posted: 6/19/2003, 3:41 pm
by curtman16
Axtech wrote:It's true. Extra digits make it easier to hit the buttons fast.
You were playing in the nude, right?
Now that's almost as funny as "whatever you do, don't talk about full house"
Re: Y Chromosome repairs own defects
Posted: 6/19/2003, 7:21 pm
by One-Eye
Just like life. The female gene goes to it's partner when something is broken, the male gene fixes it on it's own.
Spare us.
Posted: 6/19/2003, 8:19 pm
by happening fish
Notice that the female gene is smart, it doesn't go to the male gene, because it knows nothing will ever get fixed. instead, it goes to another female gene
Posted: 6/19/2003, 8:29 pm
by emily
haha Burn
Posted: 6/20/2003, 2:31 am
by robcore
I'm wearing some nice jeans.
Posted: 6/20/2003, 5:54 am
by Axtech
You people do realize that neither is male or female... It's the pairing of the two that makes one male or female.
Posted: 6/20/2003, 9:13 am
by One-Eye
Yep. My Anthropology prof used to say that being a guy is a sex-linked disease - if you get stuck with one of those useless Y-chromosomes, you get horrible deformities like penii and vestigial nipples!
I always wondered what she had against men....
Posted: 6/20/2003, 1:14 pm
by starvingeyes
didn't your prof know that doctors spank the babies so the penis' will fall off of the dumb ones?
aah chauvinism.
Posted: 6/20/2003, 3:28 pm
by emily
a long time ago (about five years) I asked my mom why did guys have nipples since they can't produce milk. I expected a more interesting answer.
Posted: 6/20/2003, 7:15 pm
by One-Eye
The answer is: guys COULD produce milk, but the hormones required for milk production would make them impotent. Guess which choice evolution favored?