IMG_0915 [Saving California’s Big Bird]

By
Thalia
– October 16, 2012
This is the finished project of sexing a condor using chromosome analysis. After pairing up the 14 macro chromosomes with their partners, Mrs. Reinbold informed us that the sex of the bird can be determined by looking at the last chromosome pair. Male condors have perfectly matching sex chromosomes (ZZ), while females have a pair of sex chromosomes that do not match up perfectly (ZW). The chromosomes in this picture show that the condor I had was a male.