User talk:Jessicanr

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[edit] French Revolution from the abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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You stated "The omission of women was implicit, but the recent wording here suggested it was explicit." If one does not know about the Declaration and reads that it was "a doctrine of popular sovereignty and equal opportunity" they would assume it included women and slaves. as this was not the case it should be clarified. Jessicanr 06:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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Yes. I think what I've written still keeps that clear, but also clarifies that this was simply a failure to remedy the status of women, not an active statement against women's rights. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Gender Studies

Hi Jessicanr, I'm asking some Project Gender Studies members for their opinions on a few changes to the project templates. The discussion is here. If you're interested please have a look. I'd also like to have the project page unprotected so it could be editted to give due balance to the Gender Theory activities of the project as well as the removal of systemic bias activities - what would be your opinions on this (discussed here)?--Cailil 01:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Human Genome Chromosome Number

Hi - thanks for following up. The situation is expounded upon a bit more later in the article:

There are 24 distinct human chromosomes: 22 autosomal chromosomes, plus the sex-determining X and Y chromosomes. Chromosomes 1–22 are numbered roughly in order of decreasing size. Somatic cells usually have 23 chromosome pairs: one copy of chromosomes 1–22 from each parent, plus an X chromosome from the mother, and either an X or Y chromosome from the father, for a total of 46.

So there are indeed 24 distinct chromosomes in the "human genome" taken as a species-level entity. The immediately-following statements that the genome contains 20,000-25,000 genes and is just over 3 billion DNA base pairs, which are the accepted figures, refer to the total content of these 24 chromosomes. (If you wanted to study the genome of an individual, in that case you would want to look at their full set of 46 chromosomes, which would contain two very slightly different copies of the 20,000-25,000 genes.)

As my edit hinted, I'm also not really happy with how it is being presented now, as many readers are confused by it. There are various other technical terms that could be thrown around (monoploid number, homologous sets, etc.) to make the semantics exact, but I don't think this would necessarily be helpful in the introduction. I do feel that what is there now is the least bad way I've seen so far :-/ --Mike Lin (talk) 18:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)