XYY syndrome is a genetic condition where a male homo sapien is born with an extra male (Y) chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes verses the usual 46. ... Males are particularly affected by XYY syndrome. ... The DNA molecules give specific instructions to form either a healthy body or an abnormal body, such as XYY males. Because males with XYY syndrome have an extra chromosome containing extra DNA, there is an error in the DNA code for how the proteins should fold, and the body produces an abnormal protein, thereby producing an abnormal phenotype. ... This disease is caused by the pres...

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In these passages, Albert subtly hints at how "man, the most perfect of all animals#" has a definite social hierarchy inscribed in the body. ... "# This description conforms to the traditional gender roles held still to this day, with the male being the decisive, "operative and formative agent", and the female provides support and sustenance. Albert notes Galen's observations that the male sperm acts as a necessity, a power, and an agent, while the colder female seminal fluid serves as nourishment of the male sperm.# This sexism is also seen in Albert's passages concerning the d...

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When the public speaks of male robots or cyborgs, Robocop and the Terminator are often the first to be talked about. ... "(95) Male cyborgs are usually given physical characteristics as aggressive with bulging bodies, almost identical to Robocop. ... "(99) The male body in a cyborg may be undermined by a sequence or narrative that interferes to make him seem like a suspect or criminal. ... Only his brain was biological; all other parts of his body are completely robotic. ... "(114) Eve 8 also has a complete circulatory system (although, it doesn't work,) and flesh to cover her body, as o...

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Not only were there a female and a male, but a third, a unified androgynous creature that possessed both female and male genitalia. ... The Gods took pity on these creatures, and in so doing moved their genitals from the back to the front of their bodies. ... Aristophanes points out that this feeling of fulfillment and happiness did not only extend to the female and male unification, but also could be achieved thought the fruitless unification of a male with another male. ... The male child of the sun would seek out his other male half, the woman in turn would hunger for another woman, and fin...

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In fact, males are so much more muscular than females, that muscle makes up over 38% of their body composition, in comparison to just under 27% in females (Dixson, 2009). ... While females tend to be less muscular than males, they also tend to have a much higher production and storage of adipose/fat, with women having a body composition of 43.6% fat, in comparison to men who have just over 28% (Dixson, 2009). ... This deposition of fat, as well as the expansion of the pelvic bone, creates an hourglass figure for most women, which is very distinctive from a male's more muscular body shape ...

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Definition Klinefelter's Syndrome is a genetic condition that occurs when a male child is born with an extra X chromosome. ... For adolescents and older males, the syndrome has noticeable effects on growth and appearance. ... Teens may have less facial or body hair, be less muscular than other boys, or experience enlarged breast tissue (gynecomastia), and a small penis. ... In females, both sex chromosomes are X (written XX), while males have one of each X and Y chromosomes (written XY). ... Testosterone therapy is often used to increase strength, encourage muscular development, grow faci...

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Later 13 more body remains of Australopithecus afarensis were found and are now known as the First Family. ... We both have a bicondylar angle that is typical for today's human bipeds that serves to place the leg under the body's center to support when walking (Stern 1983:279). ... If we take a close look at the male and female from the First Family remains, it is evident that males were almost two feet taller than their female counterparts, the male stood at a height of 5.5 feet whereas Lucy was only 3.5 feet tall. Because we are a polygynous species, Anthropologist have observed t...

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Sperm is defined by the American Society For Reproductive Medicine as male sex cells or "spermatozoa" that are produced in the testes (ASRM,1996-2015). ... Hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, tell the cells in the human body what to do, differentiate males from females and regulate reproduction. ... These foreign hormones influence the human body either by ingestion, absorption through the epidermis layers and into the bloodstream, or by prenatal exposure. ... Prenatal exposure to these compounds cause multiple male sexual dysfunctions. ... The scientific explanation for this reductio...

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Otherwise, their bodies are strikingly modern. ... Flower pollen found in the grave suggests that medicinal plants were scattered over the body as well. ... Modern humans are typically much less robust in body form and skeleton than Neanderthals. ... The male on the left has a stake driven into his hip; a larger male on the far right lies face down. The male skulls were adorned with circles of arctic fox and wolf teeth and ivory bands. ...

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Mating refers to the process in which eggs and sperm are brought together inside or outside the body of the female, a process used to reproduce. ... The male, red-bellied fish courts the female, plain-colored bellied fish with a "zig-zag" swimming that leads the female to the nest the male has made to hold her eggs. ... This fish is male, but it has a plain-colored belly resembling the female belly. This male fish patiently waits by another male's nest for a female to lay her eggs and then he unsuspectingly darts in and fertilizes the eggs before the rightful male can do so. ... Th...

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Men and woman have very different bodies and so hormones play an important role in the development of our organs so we can become capable of reproduction. ... He claimed they would think like boys, as they would enjoy male activities rather than display behaviour connected with girls. ... With the rhesus monkey and " Ehrhants" conclusion with the baby girls, both "Bleier and Oakley" argue respectively due to the fact they where born with male genitalia both where treated by their sociological groups as males. ...

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This in turn resulted in depression and anxiety over the way their body looks, destroying their self-esteem and confidence resulting in eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. ... They are usually "models:" young, very pretty women of a physical type chosen to appeal to male eyes. ... Now with young adult males consuming more media than ever before and the media being so sexually explicit; the continuous viewing of this is making men more sexually aggressive towards women. ... " The sad truth is that women now grow up in a world where many women start to feel "old" or &qu...

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Many assisted-reproduction technologies have been developed like surrogate mothers for women without a functional uterus, intracytoplasmic sperm injection for males who can't produce viable, and IVF for women with blocked or missing fallopian tubes. ... Cloning technology wouldn't require viable sperm or egg, any body cell would do. ... A startling fact: Almost 20,000 transplants were done in the USA (11,409 kidneys, 4,166 livers, 2,292 hearts and 942 lungs among them) and according to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation in the world were transplanted 48,541 ...

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It is a chemical that is existent in mammalian brains and can sometimes promote bonding between males and females of the same species and females and their offspring. ... This chemical is present in humans, both male and female, and studies have shown that the levels of oxytocin increase during sexual arousal and jump to a large degree during orgasm. ... Vasopressin increase aggression towards those attempting to move in on a vole's domain (its territory, burrow, mate, ect.) and is primarily found in high levels in males, though it is present in females as well. ... For example, the anter...

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The two topics though different share similarities in respect to recognizing a change in physical and biological appearance Two subjects, one characteristic; both realize that there is a transformation relating to the body and changes away from human ability to "a monstrous insect," or to a life-less body (Kafka 319). From Nina Straus we are given a reason to believe that she too believes in "the change of Gregor's male body into a subhuman form," and also realizes that "an insect cannot be expected to pay off debts" (Straus 655). ... From what the reader is...

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Taking away the need for male/female sexual reproduction in order to recreate is devastatingly comparable to opening the door to catastrophes that could destroy human society. ... If people begin use this technology to choose small things like eye and hair color, nothing would stop them from advancing to attempting to increase intelligence, control temperament, design body shape, height and weight, and extend life expectancy. ...

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In order to do this Victor has to spend many nights observing the bodies at the charnel houses. Upon his successful discovery of life, he collects numerous body parts and begins the creation of his creature. Victor literally takes the body parts of the deceased humans and uses them, thus technically making this beast a "human". ... From the standpoint of his physical body, the creature passes all the tests, which transitions into the next feature. ... It is not until the supposed wife of Felix, the younger male, suddenly comes to find him, that the creature's wishes would be g...

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In a gay couple, DNA from both males would be inserted into a "blanked" egg from a female donor and reinserted into surrogate mother to carry out the process of development. ... There would also be an almost zero percent chance of the patient's body rejecting the transplanted organ, as it would have an exact copy of the patient's DNA. ... These treatments rely on stem cells being devolved in a lab to prepare them to be used in another body, by using Therapeutic Cloning to acquire these cells scientists are provided with the most valuable embryonic stem cells and they will ...

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While the constitution has worked well for the United States of America, we have to remember it was created 200 years ago and was created for Caucasian males by Caucasian males. ... This premise then justifies the fact that "the individual is simply not just part of the mother's body." ...

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An increasing number of researchers, scientists and practitioners are questioning the use of animals in research on ethical, moral, socio-political and scientific grounds. Use of animal research data to affect change in their patients is rarely used by clinical psychologists. This is certainly a pub...

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