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Subject: Is sex determination considered to be discontinuous variation?

Date: Tue Feb 3 04:20:18 1998
Posted by Pong Yoke Fong
Grade level: 10-12
School: AJC
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered.
Country: Singapore
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 886501218.Ge
Message:


Unlike characteristics governed by discontinous variation, such as blood group, sex is affected by an entire chromosome instead of one or two major genes, so is sex governed by discontinous variation?


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