Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)

taliesin the storyteller writes:

> * 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?
>
>
> t.

Birth defects?  Stillborn children?

A Punnet:

   X  Y
 -------
X|XX|XY|
 |------
Y|XY|YY|
 -------

YY, of course, is completely unviable (too many missing genes),
so there'd be a 2:1 male to female sex ratio.

Highly speculative apparatus needed; you'd have to get the DNA
from the monoploid germ cells to combine, and either use a
donated egg (which introduces a third biological parent) or come
up with an eggless cloning process.


-ACGTone

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