Word: nonsex
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...greater challenges lay ahead. How could a particular gene be assigned to any of the nonsex chromosomes? Scientists cleverly tackled that problem by fusing human cells with mouse cells, then growing hybrid mouse-human cells in the laboratory. As the hybrid cells divided again and again, they gradually shed their human chromosomes until only one -- or simply a fragment of one -- was left in the nucleus of each cell...
...what there is, naked, without the novel's veils of metaphor or the ballet's screen of abstraction. Professional actors are neither trained nor eager to display themselves so ruthlessly for millions, and porno stars are unlikely to be convincing in a serious film's nonsex scenes. Audiences may have trouble shifting gears when a character they believe in suddenly impersonates a stag-reel stud. Suspension of disbelief breaks down, viewer becomes voyeur...
...Belmondo's charm leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou Voyou, Belmondo's latest film, he plays a cop disguised as a gangster and gets entangled in fistfights. In more civilized moments off the set, Belmondo brushes up on his tennis. Even a nonsex symbol needs a touch of love...
Which chromosome, they did not say. A normal woman has 22 pairs of nonsex chromosomes, like a man, plus two x chromosomes to determine femaleness. A normal man has one x, but his y chromosome is decisive and establishes maleness. A fairly common case of "one chromosome too many" is an xxy combination, but this is accompanied by external male genitalia and poor, nonathletic physical development. More probably, Ewa is a mosaic, with some xyy cells, and others containing a single x and nothing else...
...effects on patients, but totally different in inheritance and incidence is von Willebrand's disease. This is the most common of a group of clotting disorders that are transmitted by genes on some other chromosome than the x-which chromosome, remains a mystery. But it is a nonsex chromosome, so boys and girls are equally likely to inherit the defective gene...