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The other day when I was reading the thread on Hypo Hondos I started thinking more about genetics. I used to raise pigeons and chickens and many of their colors are sex-linked.
That got me thinking about how sex-linked genetics are tied to the X or Y chromosome. Then that led to a remembrance of 4th grade Science class; that men have an X and Y chromosome and women have X/X. So basically those of us who are men are actually...
...het WOMEN!
How crazy is that?!
LOL, yup.
Unless you have Klinefelter's syndrome, then you XXY, and homozygous female/homozygous male!
:-0
Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859
don't forget that XYY dude.....ain't birds....z & w.....WW are male and ZW are female.....and ain't there one gonad....the ovotesties???.....in byrdz that is....
I don't know, but I do know birds have a "cloaca"..LOL!
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
yeah.....cloaca....one exit for three systems....digestive, urinary, reproductive.......and there's some behavior termed the "CLOACAL KISS"?????
you make it sound like a bad thing....???
...I had pigeons as a kid also....my father never helped me and let me have them...they were down the street in the alley....Thanxx Dad.....(they hate snakes too)....
as of now...I lived here since '85 and my neighbor in the back has like 150 tumblers.....so it's a pigeon for free neighborhood....the cooper's hawk likes it.....he was here today.....
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........JY
Your comments bring back memories. I had tumbling pigeons when I was a kid. Also raised sex-link chickens. They were incredible layers, producing triple yolked eggs pretty often. Enjoyed your observations.
--Dennis
actually they say now that we are all women and hormones turn some women into men ......so we are not het woman we actually used to be a woman.....???.........
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........JY
yeah....in early embryonic stages....i believe the sexual equipment is the same and the first hit of testosterone initiates changes......some believe that the Y chromosome is a defective X......anyone out know for sure????
I always thought when the two "X" chromosomes were together....THAT was defective!
Why else would they make such a big deal about stupid things like toilet seats being up and toothpaste caps being off??...LMAO!! 
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
yeah.....but they got what we want!!!!!!!......
Which is precisely why we have to put the cap on the toothpaste, and the seat up..LMAO!!!
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
Weirded out by genetics????? You should try living in my area.
Any how, back to the subject at hand. "Que Sera, Sera". When I heard Doris Day sing this song in that Hitchcock movie with Jimmy Stewart, I've never tried to figure out who's got what. I put my pairs together and hope they don't make a meal out of each other and that all the eggs are goodies.
Mike
Strange coincidence, this girls name really is Kay Sera Sera Roy! Leave it to the Maine hillbillies...
Well, maybe it's just because I'm a Maine hillbilly, but I was so impressed by your picture, that I just had to ask my girlfriend if we could invite her over to wash our snakes. Unfortunately, she said no, because she thought that the girl in the picture probably has "herps". I told her that she pronounced "herps" wrong, and that she obviously has at least one "herp" (the boa constrictor, duh), but it doesn't seem to have helped my case any.
>>so some of us are...het WOMEN!
>>How crazy is that?!
Oh yeah? I'm gonna punch you in the face for that! No, wait, I think I'm gonna cry…. Dammit doug, I'm gonna kick you right in the…. Ohmigod, I've gotta call three or four of my friends and share with them all the feelings I'm having…. No, wait…
That is too funny Terry!..LMAO!!!
Now go eat some "comfort" food and things will be all better!
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
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