sex chromosome
sex chromosome A chromosome that operates in the sex-determining mechanism of a species. Many animals have two different types of sex chromosome. For example, in mammals there is a large X chromosome and a much smaller Y chromosome; the female has two matching X chromosomes, making it the
homogametic sex, whereas the male has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, making it the
heterogametic sex. In other animal groups, such as butterflies and moths, birds, and reptiles, the situation is reversed: males have two matching W chromosomes, while females have one W chromosome and one Z chromosome. Sex chromosomes carry genes governing the development of sex organs and secondary sexual characteristics. They also carry other genes unrelated to sex (see
sex linkage). See
sex determination;
testis-determining factor.
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A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...is the first work in English on the Sonderbund War; small wars with few casualties...over, so was the war" (168). The Sonderbund War is often treated as a prelude to...Catholic-Conservative cantons formed the Sonderbund to defend themselves against the radicals...
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A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...crucial aspects of the American experience ..." The theme is picked up when Constantin Siegwart-Muller is called "the Sonderbund's Jefferson Davis" (p. 53) and the battle of Gisisken, in a sense at least, was "an unmurderous Appomattox" (p...
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Goldstein, Leslie Friedman Constituting Federal Sovereignty: the European Union in Comparative Context.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...against centralized authority. Recent war memories among member states (EU states and World War II and the Swiss and the Sonderbund War) seem to dampen and pacify resistance to central authority. Finally, perhaps most important for a peaceful sovereignty...
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Orthodoxy and nationalism in the Greek case.
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Dutch, despite the common language. Religion and not language also threatened to break up the Swiss nation in 1847 in the Sonderbund war, which may be regarded as the final stage of its formation. Religion and not language also served to construct an Austrian...
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Thursday, October 21
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Adm. Horatio Nelson defeats the French and Spanish in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, is killed. 1847 - The Sonderbund War between Catholics and Protestants begins in Switzerland. 1861 - The first South American railroad line is inaugurated...
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Ahead of pope's visit, Switzerland plans full relations with Vatican
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/27/2004; ; 685 words
; ...centuries later, the Reformation-era fault lines among the country's cantons (states) still counted enough to fuel the "Sonderbund" war between Protestants and breakaway Catholics in 1847. Switzerland, which had maintained loose diplomatic ties with...
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Pope John Paul heads to Switzerland, in first pilgrimage in nine months
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...states) still counted enough to fuel a war between Protestants and breakaway Catholics in 1847. The conflict is called the Sonderbund, the name of the breakaway Catholic league. In 1848, lawmakers placed constitutional restrictions on the founding of new...
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Pope John Paul embarks on first pilgrimage in nine months with visit to Switzerland
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...states) still counted enough to fuel a war between Protestants and breakaway Catholics in 1847. The conflict is called the Sonderbund, the name of the breakaway Catholic league. In 1848, lawmakers placed constitutional restrictions on the founding of new...
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Développement économique et état central (1815-1914): Un siècle de politique douanière suisse au service des élites [Economic Development and the Centralized State (1815-1914): A Century of Swiss Customs Policy at the Service of the Elites]
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...coalition met resistance from the rural and conservative elites. However, it triumphed over these opposing forces in the Sonderbund civil war of 1847 and established a federal state in 1848. The 1850s and 1860s saw both the unification of the home market...
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Monday, October 21
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Adm. Horatio Nelson defeats the French and Spanish in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, is killed. 1847 - The Sonderbund War between Catholics and Protestants begins in Switzerland. 1861 - The first South American railroad line is inaugurated...
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Sonderbund
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Sonderbund. An organization founded in Dü...contemporary art; the full name was Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunder und K...writers, the first president of the Sonderbund being Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874...
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Zug
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Swiss Confederation in 1352 and again in 1364, after a return to Hapsburg domination. In 1845 the canton joined the Catholic Sonderbund . Zug gained its current constitution in 1894. Its capital, Zug (1993 pop. 21,700), is on the Lake of Zug (15 sq...
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Guillaume Henri Dufour
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...general. He served in the French army under Napoleon I, and in 1847 he led the Swiss federal forces to victory against the Sonderbund . A noted cartographer, he was also the author of several military treatises and histories. Dufour presided over the first...
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Dufour, Guillaume-Henri
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...The maps were later published (1842 – 1864). He was elected a general of the Swiss army in 1847, during the Sonderbund War, again in 1849 to preserve Swiss neutrality, in 1856 during the conflict with Prussia over Neuch â tel, and...
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Velde, Henry van de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...leading to several commissions in Germany, where he moved in 1900. His German patrons included Karl Ernst Osthaus (see SONDERBUND ), for whom he remodelled the Folkwang Museum at Hagen (1900–2) and who wrote a biography of van de Velde...
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