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AP Psychology 3.4 Biological Bases of Behavior. Which of the following chromosome pairs do we find in males?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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genetics otherwise known as the best excuse for problematic behavior right [Parents talking to son]

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after I wasn't listening and Kafulu made me do it all right here's our question

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human development is driven by genetics genes tell the cells of the body what to

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do when pieced together genes make up what we know as chromosomes which of the

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following chromosome pairs do we find in males and here's the potential answers...

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all right let's simplify here we're only dealing with humans and the [People walking downtown]

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human sex chromosomes are x and y that eliminates options D and E which all

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contain Z...Z is a sex chromosome found in non-human animals like poultry not what [Eggs underneath a tree]

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we're looking for...C and to help you out a little we've got some background

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info that might come in handy chromosomes are thread-like structures [Structure of chromosomes]

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that live within the nucleus of animal and plant cells and are made up of

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protein and molecule of DNA in order for organisms to grow and work as their [Sheep on a field]

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intended cells have to divide in order to produce new cells and it's essential

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that DNA remain intact and evenly distributed during this process that's

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what chromosomes do think of all that protein as a bunch of really tough [Security guards stood outside a protein box]

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security guards ensuring that everything goes according to plan some things like

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bacteria only have one or two pairs of chromosomes an insect on the other hand

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might have four pairs while a plant may have something like 12 humans however

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have exactly 23 pairs we inherit one copy of each chromosome from our mother [Man and woman with chromosomes]

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and one copy of each from our Father this explains why you might have Dad's

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nose and Moms blond hair well 22 of those pairs of chromosomes are called [Autosomes in a box]

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autosomes which are effectively defined as being not sex chromosomes and contain

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genes that do everything that sex chromosomes don't as in pretty much

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everything about you that isn't your sex that includes all those annoying things

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that make you exactly like your parents and if you think you're not like them [Son dressed like Father]

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just wait 10 or 20 years you're in for a rude awakening but we're concerned with

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the very last pair of chromosomes right there at the end in case

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your parents haven't given you the talk yet we're about to spoil a few things [Bird drops a chromosome]

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babies do not come from storks they come from an egg fertilized by a sperm that's

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right there are no actual birds and bees involved or storks we know it's life [Bird carrying a will work for love sign]

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changing the egg is definitely going to show up to the party with two X

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chromosomes while the male sperm shows up with an X and a Y and maybe some

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potato salad the Y chromosome determines the sex and once Y shows up in the

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offspring it's male so let's look back at our answers XY, XX and YX so we can

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eliminate choice C... XX because that would be a female offspring then we're left

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with XY and YX well the first human sex chromosome in the sequence is always [Man carrying X chromosome]

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X regardless of the resulting sex that's just how the world works so that

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means B is our answer for at least what Cthulhu says it is...

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