Friday, September 21, 2012

Chapter 1,2, and 14

Inter Sex-phenotypes in which male and female traits are seen in the same individual

Pseudohermaphroditism-  Inter sex condition in which the secondary sex characteristics differ from what is expected of the gonadal sex 


Gynandromorph- Body parts are male and others female.

Genomic Equivalence-the theory that every cell of an organism has the same genome as every other cell

Polyspermy- the entrance of more than one sperm during fertilization

Chromatin- a protein composed of histones

Silencers- DNA regulatory elements that actively repress the transcription of a particular gene. 

Epigenesis- the belief that organs of the embryo are formed from scratch at each generation

Performation-the view that organs of the embryo are already present in a miniature form within the egg or sperm.

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