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  1. n. genetics A mammalian sex chromosome. Cells of females have a pair of X chromosomes while cells of males have an X and a Y.

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  1. Named by Hermann Henking in 1890 from x (signifying the unknown) due to some baffling properties he had observed. The brief resemblance in the appearance of the X chromosome to the letter "X" during cell division is entirely coincidental. (Wiktionary)

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  1. joelonsoftware
  2. sex-linked
  3. monosome
  1. heterogametic
  2. hemophilia
  3. Turner's syndrome
  1. X-linked
  2. Barr body
  3. three-decade-long
  1. x-linked dominant inheritance
  2. x-linked gene
  3. x-linked recessive inheritance
  1. xxy-syndrome
  2. kinetochore
  3. klinefelter syndrome
  1. Klinefelter's syndrome
  2. centromere

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