"The X chromosome is all alone in the male, but in the female it has a friend so it can swap bits and repair itself. If the Y gets a hit it's a downward spiral."
Males will disappear in 5 million years, predicts Australian geneticist Jenny Graves
New Delhi: An Australian geneticist Prof Jenny Graves from the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University in Canberra has predicted that the poorly designed Y chromosome, that creates male, is degrading rapidly
"The X chromosome is all alone in the male, but in the female it has a friend so it can swap bits and repair itself. If the Y gets a hit it's a downward spiral."
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