Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)
| From: | Jake X <starvingpoet@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 19:00 |
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[t@'lisIn D@ 'stori,tElr\= r\oUt]:
> * Jake X said on 2003-05-20 21:20:01 +0200
> > "Joe" <joe@...> said on 2003-05-20:
> > > But either way, a gay(male) couple could potentially make an XX baby
or an
> > > XY baby, as long as they had some kind of weird apparatus.
> >
> > I know. But given the existance of such an apparatus, they would
> > increase the chance of having compared to the straights manyfold
> > (25% per birth on a Punnet square).
>
> Say again? This does not compute. Having what, manyfold what?
If there were an apparatus by which two gay men could have a child,
then on such an apparatus, the likelihood of the occurrance of a YY
zygote is about one in four, compared to the one in several million
among heterosexuals' children.
Jake