Recently developed genomic technologies have shed light on the genomic composition of the ancient Y chromosomes of some primates and Drosophila melanogaster and have shown that Y chromosomes in these ...
Most eukaryotic chromosomes, akin to messy toolboxes, store jumbles of genes with diverse biological uses. The linkage of a gene to a particular chromosome therefore rarely hints strongly at that gene ...
Each human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes that carry DNA within their nucleus. The X and Y chromosomes, commonly referred to as the sex chromosomes, are one such pair. They determine the ...