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| Description: hank your parents if you’re smart. Study concludes that if a man wants smart sons his best bet is to marry a smart woman. Women are more likely to transmit intelligence genes to their children because they are carried on the X chromosome and women have two of these, while men only have one. Growing evidence shows that several genes which determine intelligence appear to be located on the x chromosome, the one men inherit from their mothers .any mutation on the x chromosome has more effect on a man than a woman because a woman inherits x chromosomes from both her parents, which tends to dilute the gene’s impact. But a man only has one X chromosome inherited from his mother, which is paired with the smaller Y chromosomes from his father. Therefore, an intelligence-enhancing X gene has more of a chance of becoming the predominant gene, determining the man’s basic intelligence, looks and character Picture Stats: Views: 288 Filesize: 556.26kB Height: 600 Width: 800 Source: https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=37448 |