STRONG AND SUPERIOR_WHO?THE MOMENT WE HEAR THE WORD STRONG THE MACHAO IMAGE OF MALES COME IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.BUT
IT IS A MYTH, A MISNOMER.IT WOULD BE SURPRISING FOR MOST OF US TO KNOW THAT THE STRENTH WE NORMALLY REFER TO IS THE MUSCULAR STRENTHTH AND THEREFORE IT IS THE PHYSICAL STRENTH ONLYWHEN IT COMES TO THE INTERNAL STRENTH, BIOLOGICAL STRENTH, RESISTANCE TO FIGHT VARIOUUS DISEASES FEMALES EMERGE VICTORIOUS.STATISTICALLY IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT MORE NUMBER OF MALES DIES FROM DISEASES LIKE HEART ATTACK, BRAIN HEMORRHAGE, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION ETC. IF WE CLOSELY EXAMINE WE WILL FIND THESE ARE ALL STRESS-RELATED DISEASES AND ABOUT THE MALES IT IS SAID THAT THEY ARE NOT GOOD IN COPING WITH THE EMOTIONAL-RELATED ISSUES. THEIR EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT IS ALSO LOW AND THEY GET GUIDED BY BRAIN MORE THAN HEART. BECAUSE OF THIS, PHYSIOLOGICAL DISFUNCTIONING IS CAUSED. NOT IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT BECAUSE OF STRESS, THE SECRETION OF HORMONE SEROTININ (HAPPY HORMONE) DECREASES AND THIS DISBALANCE GETS REFLECTED IN THE FORM OF VARIOUS DISEASES.GENETICALLY ALSO, THEY ARE WEAKER BECAUSE MOST OF THE GENETICALLY INHERITED DISEASES GETS TRANSFERRED TO THE MALES MORE FREQUENTLY THAN THE FEMALE. GENETICALLY INHERITED DISEASES, LIKE COLOUR BLINDNESS, HAEMOPHILIA, SICKLE-CELL ANAEMIA, GET TRANSFERRED TO MALES VERY FREQUENTLY. REASON BEING THEIR GENETIC CONSTITUTION I.E. XY STATUS. THESE X AND Y ARE CALLED THE SEX CHROMOSOMES WHICH DETERMINE THE MALE SEX.STRUCTURALLY
‘Y’ CHROMOSOME IS SHORTER IN LENGTH IN COMPARISON TO
‘X’ CHROMOSOME. THEREFORE, AT THE TIME OF THE PAIRING OF THE GENES, THERE ARE MANY GENES WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE UPPER PART OF THE
‘X’ CHROMOSOME DON’T GET PAIRED UP WITH
‘Y’. THEREFORE ANY DEFECTIVE GENE COMING FROM THE MATERNAL SIDE REFLECTS ITS CHARACTER IN THE MALES. WHILE IN CASE OF FEMALES WHERE THE GENO-TYPE IS
‘XX’ THEY EMERGE VICTORIOUS. BOTH THE CHROMOSOMES ARE OF THE SAME LENGTH. SO ALL THE GENES RESPONSIBLE FOR DIFFERENT CHARACTERS GET THEIR PROPER COUNTERPART IN THE OTHER CHROMOSOME. THEREFORE EVEN IF A PERSON INHERITS ONE DEFECTIVE
‘X’ CHROMOSOME, THE DEFECT IS SHADOWED BY ANOTHER NORMAL
‘X’ CHROMOSOME.LET US CONSIDER THE EXAMPLE OF COLOUR BLINDNESS (A GENETICALLY INHERITED DISEASE). HOW AND WHY IT IS MORE FREQUENT IN CASE OF MALES THAN IN FEMALES. SAME WILL BE TRUE FOR MANY OTHER GENETICALLY INHERITED DISEASES.LET US TAKE THE EXAMPLE OF A FEMALE WHO IS A CARRIER OF A DEFECTIVE GENE MEANING THEREBY THAT ALTHOUGH THE DEFECT IN ONE THE GENES ON ONE OF THE TWO
‘X’ CHROMOSOME IS THERE, IT IS UNABLE TO EXPRESS ITSELF BECAUSE OF THE ANOTHER NORMAL
‘X’ CHROMOSOME. AT THE TIME OF THE FORMATION OF EGGS THE TWO
‘X’ CHROMOSOMES SEPARATE FORMING ONE NORMAL EGG (CONTAINING NORMAL
‘X’ CHROMOSOME) AND ANOTHER CONTAINING DEFECTIVE
‘X’ CHROMOSOME.THIS FEMALE MATES WITH A NORMAL MALE I.E.
‘X’ AND
‘Y’ BOTH THE CHROMOSOMES ARE NORMAL. AT THE TIME OF THE FORMATION OF SPERMS, FEW SPERMS WOULD CARRY NORMAL
‘X’ AND FEW WILL CARRY NORMAL
‘Y’. WE WILL FIND THAT NONE OF THE FEMALES WOULD BE COLOUR BLIND BUT 25% CHANCES ARE THERE THAT THE MALE BORNE WOULD BE COLOUR BLIND. THIS CAN BE REPRESENTED BY A SYMBOLLIC DIAGRAM. FEMALE MALEGENO-TYPE: XX* XY EGGSXX* SPERMSX YF1 GENERATIONXXXY XX*X*Y NORMAL MALE COLOUR BLIND MALE NORMAL FEMALE CARRIER FEMALEWE CAN EASILY SEE THAT 25% CHANCES ARE THAT OF THE MALE CHILD GETTING COLOUR BLINDNESS.
X* REPRESENTS DEFECTIVE
‘X’ CHROMOSOME. THEREFORE BECAUSE OF THEIR GENO-TYPE MALES ARE THE SUFFERERS.