The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
December 10, 201530m 8s
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Show Notes
Nature offers species a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. That flexibility suggests we need not be concerned about losing sex chromosomes, but it raises the question of why such a fundamental property is so variable.
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