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  • Sorry, I got cut off.

    Those were the good days. Xylophonic resonances hanging in the air, the smell of burning water... And good old Dr. Ooforsaien.
    They aren't tragic. On the contrary, Dr. Ooforsaien and I always used to dress up as woman and wear Girly Wigs. Then we would do other things.
    Humans can have XXY. Humans can also have XYY. Humans can also have one X. There can also be XX males. There can also be XY females. Humans can presumably also have one Y, but the Y chromosome is so small it would cause the bearer to die before getting to do anything worthwhile. Surely cats are capable of the same?

    EDIT: From Wikipedia: "Male cats, like other mammalian males, have only a single X chromosome (XY) that does not undergo X-inactivation: coat color is determined by which allele is present on the X, and they will be either entirely black or orange. Very rarely (approximately 1 in 3,000) a male tortoiseshell or calico is born. These animals typically have an extra X chromosome (XXY), a condition known in humans as Klinefelter syndrome, and undergo an inactivation process like that in females. As in humans, these cats are almost always sterile because of the imbalance in sex chromosomes. Some male calico or tortoiseshell cats may be chimeras, which result from the fusion in early development of two embryos with different color genotypes. Others are mosaics, in which the XXY condition arises after conception and the cat is a mixture of cells with different numbers of X chromosomes."

    (Yes.)
    tгคﻮเς, tгคﻮเς, tгคﻮเς ฬђเгlเﻮเﻮร.
    It is possible for male tortoiseshells to exist, as far as I know; would they have to be XXY?

    (Also, Warriors didn't like doing the research on cat colors, unfortunately, although at least tortoiseshell females are more common than tortoiseshell males. :<)
    I think I've seen enough squares to last me the day now.

    Which isn't saying much because it's about 10:30pm here and I should be getting to bed soon xP
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