An accepted theory that chromosomes are the material of inheritance, and that they are associated in paternal-maternal pairings; dervied from the collective work of Boveri, Sutton, and Morgan.

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research reveals that some fungi nuclei only contain half.

A new study provides new insight into height differences between adult men and women, demonstrating that Y chromosome genes contribute more to height than their X chromosome counterparts.

Reporting on their findings in Nature, “ The maternal X chromosome affects cognition and brain aging in female mice,” co-senior author Dubal and colleagues concluded, “Understanding how X m ...

Autosomal inheritance occurs when parents pass genes down to a child via autosomes, which are a type of chromosome. Learn more here.

Over a century ago, one part of our DNA got labelled the "sex chromosomes." Science and radio journalist Molly Webster explains the consequences of that oversimplification.