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Hour Two: The X Chromosome
| What, deep down, makes a woman a woman? Sugar and spice and everything nice? Nope - unless you count the tiny amount of sugar that makes up the backbone of the DNA in the X chromosome.
You probably learned once that women have two X chromosomes, while men have one X and one Y. But can that microscopic difference really account for all the differences between the sexes - beyond the physical differences to the emotional, behavioral, and psychological differences? (and do all those differences actually exist, or are some of them just a product of society?) |  | On this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk about the X chromosome and what it does... and next week, we'll continue the conversation in this hour with a look at the Y chromosome.
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Guests:
Natalie Angier
Author, "Woman: An Intimate Geography" (Houghton Mifflin)
Science Writer, The New York Times
Takoma Park, MD
Meredith Small
Author, "Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent" (Anchor Books)
Professor, Anthropology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
- X Chromosome Database
Visible Human Project
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health This segment produced by:
Karin Vergoth
Web producer:
Charles Bergquist
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