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Thread #97388   Message #1916491
Posted By: Paul Burke
22-Dec-06 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Virgin Dragon To Give Birth!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Virgin Dragon To Give Birth!!!
No, it's just the chromosomes. Reptiles (and birds) are the opposite of us in this respect. We are female if we have the sex chromosome pair XX, and male if XY (YY is I believe unknown).

In reptiles and birds the equivalent chromosome pair gives male if the same, female if different. In parthenogenisis, the YY pair doesn't produce a viable egg, but the XX pair eggs are viable, and all male.

Genetically, a normal human produced by parthenogenisis would be female, unless of course a miracle occurred.