2005 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript
This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2005. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.
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What is a hemaphropodite?
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Aideen McInerney, M.S.: Usually, a woman has two X chromosome and men has an X and a Y. A hermaphrodite is a person whose appears to be a woman but has an X and a Y or a man who has two X chromosomes. Some people who have hermanphroditism have some cells which are XX and others that are XY. |
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