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Battle of the Sexes

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Genetics of Sex - What Happens When Sperm and Egg Are Made?

i'm a geneticist and my job is to make sex boring. When sperm and egg are made, there's this system where you have one division of the dea followed by two divisions of a cell. You end up with a sperm with 23 chromosoms, and an egg or 23 chromosom, and then they get together. And that's why each one of us looks a bit like our parents, but not identicalto. That's what marked that sort Sex really is sexs recombination, except sex is a shorter word.

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