Talk:Sex chromosome

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Request to add to the sex determination section of this article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mehnazt/sandbox

Above is a link to my sandbox. My draft for the sex determination section is there. Let me know what you guys think. I'm thinking of adding information about plants/intersex people as well. --Mehnazt (talk) 00:08, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Etymology
Perhaps a statement about etymology would be helpful? The Greek language has two words meaning different: hetero and allo. As I recall from Greek class 30 years ago, (sorry I'm not looking this up right now): allo, different but of the same kind; hetero, different of different kinds. Bob Enyart, Denver radio host at KGOV (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

I am username sachipatel and I am improving this page for a biology project under the supervision of Mr. Bohrer at Waynesville High School. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sachipatel (talk • contribs) 14:01, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 5 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 06:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Allosome → Sex chromosome – Outdated, allosome hardly registers on ngrams and completely outnumbered in searches, also sex chromosome used in infobox Iztwoz (talk) 07:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 17:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). --  Alex TW 08:58, 5 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Support, common and most familiar name. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * support. So much more familiar, as illustrated by the opening line of Autosome ("An autosome is a chromosome that is not an allosome (a sex chromosome).")  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC)


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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2?
Your addition on "The deactivated X-chromosome" and "Polycomb Repressive Complex 2" sounds interesting but could use a citation. Can you provide such? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 05:16, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reminding me of this oversight on X chromosome. I have now added a citation to X-chromosome .  I believe I had added a citation to PRC2 itself.  The citation was


 * Thank you for the response.
 * QUESTION: I now see Brockdorff but not Veneti in the References.
 * Should the Brockdorff reference be advanced one sentence and Veneti be added where Brockdorff currently is?
 * I'm asking. I very much appreciate you contributions.  I don't know enough to feel confident in doing anything with this.  Thanks again.  DavidMCEddy (talk) 02:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Wrong topic
The title of the article suggests this should be about sex chromosomes in general, but most of the article exclusively talks about the XY system, even though a separate article on that topic already exists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 00:42, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Irrelevant sections
The sections 2.1 Previous theories on sex determination and 2.2	Sex determination as understood today both seem to be primarily about X-inactivation, and are only peripherally relevant to this article. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2022 (UTC)