Kleinfelter's syndrome.
Nondisjunction will occur . Yep
Normal male humans have the sex chromosomes XY. The presence of the Y chromosome determines sex in humans - so a person with XXY will be male.
An embryo, male or female, usually has two sex chromosomes, one from mom, one from dad. In a male's case, they would be XY. Rarely, nondisjunction occurs, and a child winds up XXX, XXY, XYY, or X. XXX and X become female, and XXY and XYY become male. So, it is theoretically possible for a male embryo to have three sex chromosomes.
No actually it is a sex-linked trait.
It is estimated that about in in 500 men have Klinefelter's syndrome.
Nondisjunction will occur . Yep
Normal male humans have the sex chromosomes XY. The presence of the Y chromosome determines sex in humans - so a person with XXY will be male.
An embryo, male or female, usually has two sex chromosomes, one from mom, one from dad. In a male's case, they would be XY. Rarely, nondisjunction occurs, and a child winds up XXX, XXY, XYY, or X. XXX and X become female, and XXY and XYY become male. So, it is theoretically possible for a male embryo to have three sex chromosomes.
Male - in humans the sex is determined by the presence of a Y chromosome. In other animals sex can be determined by the ratio of sex chromosomes, or the total number of chromosomes.
No actually it is a sex-linked trait.
It is estimated that about in in 500 men have Klinefelter's syndrome.
XXY. Klinefelter is caused when the X chromosomes of the mother fail to split, or an XY sperm reaches an X egg, resulting in a mostly male child.
In humans, normal females have XX chromosomes, and males have XY. It is the presence of a Y chromosome that makes an individual a male, not the ratio of X to Y or the presence of only one X. Therefore someone with XXY would be male.
1 pair of sex chromosomes Female pair is XX Male pair is XY
Yes, it is possible to have XXX, XXY, or XYY sex chromosomes.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, with 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes. Males have XY sex chromosomes while females have XX sex chromosomes. However, genetic disorders do occur whereby some males have XYY or XXY chromosomes, making the total number of chromosomes to be 47. Females have their own share of genetic disorders: Turner's Syndrome (single X chromosome) or Trisomy X (XXX). In normal cases the short answer would be: XY for males, XX for females.
Well you don't "get" it like you get a common cold. You are born with it due to a genetic mutation on your sex chromosomes causing the XXY gene instead of XY, like in a non-Klinefelter, male.