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I wonder if the male or the female DNA contains more or less information than the other?

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    Related: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/57479/do-men-and-women-have-the-same-number-of-genes – canadianer Jun 24 '17 at 15:44

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Define "information" — females have more base pairs and more individual genes because X's are larger than Y's, but males have a large number of unique loci and thus unique genes, because they have an X and Y chromosome.

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