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[fodirteg]

Ok. This is new to me. A virgin komodo dragon in Britain is due to give birth (via parthenogenesis)near Christmas. Apparently this isn't an un-heard-of occurrence in lizards.

Article here

It seems that genetics will determine that all such offspring will be male. I have no understanding of genetics, at all. I'd have thought that such a birth would

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[iulia_linnea]

That is interesting; I wonder why the babies would be male, as well.

[fodirteg]

When I read (somewhere?) about MPregs resulting in only male children (except perhaps magical ones, of course *g*) I wondered why a hypothetical child of any two parents-which included at least one male-could not have randomly received two X chromosomes, thus producing female offspring, assuming the pregnancy wasn't due to a parent somehow cloning himself.

I'm afraid that I don't understand how a sole female parent not only could but necessarily would supply its offspring a Y chromosome.

It is a total puzzlement to me.