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To: Dysart
This was illuminating for me.

Try this one on for size....1 in 3,000 Calico cats is a male...

38 posted on 10/18/2009 7:52:13 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: FDNYRHEROES

He must be one very busy boy.


41 posted on 10/18/2009 7:55:03 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: FDNYRHEROES
Try this one on for size....
1 in 3,000 Calico cats is a male...

Isn’t that because the gene coding for hair color
is on the x-chromosome,
which is randomly suppressed from one cell to another.
Hence heterochromia in females only

A process not possible in males (only one x-chromosome)

45 posted on 10/18/2009 8:02:27 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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