1 Colored Egg Layer Chickens. The Araucana is a pure breed of chicken originating in Chile. 2  Ameraucana chickens were developed in the 1970âs in the United States from Araucanas. They were developed as a practical barnyard fowl that laid pastel shelled eggs, but without some of the limiting genetic factors related to rumplessness and tufts.
sex chromosome. a chromosome, differing in shape or function from other chromosomes, that determines the sex of an individual.
In heredity: Sex linkage â¦other pairs of chromosomes (called autosomes). The members of the autosome pairs are truly homologous; that is, each member of a pair contains a full complement of the same genes (albeit, perhaps, in different allelic forms). The sex chromosomes, on the other hand, do not constitute a homologous pair, asâ¦ Read More