Hyerdahl wrote:
> Masculist wrote:
>
>
>>"Carrel and Willard published their results in Nature this week.
>>Commenting on the findings, Chris Gunter, senior editor at Nature's
>>Washington office, compared women to calico cats."
>
>
> No, it did not.  What it DID say was about female abilities over male
> abilities in the XX vs XY scenerio.    Thus, if women were being
> compared to female cats, men would have to be compared to male cats,
> eh?
>
>>In the LA Times article today the researcher said there were greater
>>genetic differences between men and women than between men and
>>chimpanzees.   Watch the feminists come out of the woodwork on this.
>
>  Their whole legal claim to mandated sexual equality is based on little
>
>>or no sex differences.
>
>
> Not so.  The claim to legal equal rights is based on the fact that
> human beings are human beings, and the notion that one social group has
> no right to be OVER the other, asshole. Here is one of the articles ver
> batem and it does not say anything about  chimps.  :-)  Perhaps you're
> just off your nut.
>
> X Chromosome May Explain Difference Between Sexes
> By MALCOLM RITTER, AP
>
> (March 17)-- Women get more work out of hundreds of genes on the X
> chromosome than men do, and that might help explain biological
> differences between the sexes, a new study says.
>
> The results imply that women make higher doses of certain proteins than
> men do, which might play out in gender differences in both normal life
> and disease, researchers said.
>
> So far, however, none of the genes identified in the study has been
> linked to any such observable differences, said senior study author
> Huntington Willard of Duke University.
>
> He and Laura Carrel of Pennsylvania State University describe their
> analysis of the X chromosome genes in Thursday's issue of the journal
> Nature.
>
> A second paper in the same issue presents a comprehensive analysis of
> the chromosome's DNA, in which an international team of scientists
> found 1,098 genes.
>
> Chromosomes are the threadlike packages of genes and other DNA found in
> cells of the body. People have 24 kinds, numbered 1 through 22 plus the
> X chromosome and its runty partner, the Y. Women carry two copies of
> the X chromosome, one inherited from each parent,

Wrong! You cannot inherit an 'X' from a male
because males are never responsible for the
provision of the 'X' chromosome. A female
mamallian organism (in the light of this study
it may be that females no longer qualify as
humans at all) Inherits one 'X' chromosome from
her mother and the other from her paternal
GRANDmother.

D.

  while men have one X
> plus one Y chromosome.
>
> Long before birth, females permanently turn off one copy of their X
> chromosome in each cell, so that like males they operate with just one
> copy functioning. The choice of which X chromosome is inactivated is
> random, an effect made visible in the unusual coats of calico cats.
>
> But scientists have long known that inactivation isn't perfect. Some
> genes on the inactivated copy continue to function, sending out
> chemical orders for the cell to manufacture specific proteins.
>
> The work by Willard and Carrel suggests the inactivated chromosome
> contains 200 to 300 such genes, in two categories.
>
> First, they found that 15 percent of the inactivated chromosome's genes
> continue to function to some degree. More surprising, Willard said, was
> what researchers discovered about another 10 percent of the genes. For
> each, the activity level varied widely from one woman to the next, from
> zero in some women to varying levels in others.
>
> That contrasts with the relatively consistent activity levels one sees
> in X chromosomes from men, or in other chromosomes in either sex,
> Willard said.
>
> In fact, when the study compared the inactivated X chromosomes of 40
> women, each of them showed a different pattern of gene activity,
> Willard said.
>
> Dr. Jeannie T. Lee, who studies X chromosome inactivation at Harvard
> Medical School, said the study provides a better estimate than
> scientists had before of how many genes escape inactivation. And she
> agreed that the variability between women was a surprise.
>
> The work raises the possibility that varying activity of genes on the X
> chromosome can account for not only some differences between the sexes,
> but also between women, she said.
>
>
> 03/17/05 09:04 EST
>
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