SRY
By Levi Clancy for Student Reader on
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- Axis formation
- Axis formation
- Central dogma
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- Darwinian Evolution
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- Mendel's Laws of Genetics
- Morphogen gradient
- Mutation
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- Polymorphism
- Sex
- Sex determination
- Sexual reproduction
- Stem cell
Also known as the testes-determining gene or sex-determining region on the Y chromosome, SRY is a gene located on the short arm of the Y chromosome and encodes a DNA-binding transcription factor known as testes-determining factor (TDF) early (and briefly) in development. Although SRY does not determine sex in all cases -- it is not present in 10% of unambiguous XX males -- it is a key instrument in the concert of sex determination.