Women's chromosome division different from men's

SOURCE: Science News online

DATE: November 12, 2008

EXCERPT: "Women and men sometimes do things differently, right down to divvying up their genetic legacies. 

This divvying up is known as meiosis, a process that cuts the number of chromosomes in half during the production of eggs and sperm. Men do meiosis by the textbook, but women play it looser with the process ...  in addition, women’s chromosomes don’t behave the way men’s do."    more

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Reported by Terry Hassold, geneticist, Washington State University-Pullman on Nov. 12 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Philadelphia.