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What are the genes carries on the x and y chromosomes called?
The genes carried on the X chromosome are called X-linked genes, while the genes carried on the Y chromosome are called Y-linked genes. These genes play a role in determining various traits and characteristics in individuals.
Two genes for two different traits located on the same chromosome are said to be?
Linked genes, because they are physically close together on the same chromosome and tend to be inherited together.
What are genes carried on the X chromosome?
Some genes carried on the X chromosome include those responsible for traits such as color blindness, hemophilia, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Inheritance of these genes follows specific patterns due to the X-linked nature of these traits.
A scientist doing research found that flower color and pollen shape were traits that were always passed together. That is they did not fit Mendel's rule for independent assortment. Why might that be?
the 2 genes are carried on the same chromosome
A gene located on the X or Y chromosome is a?
Genes located on the X or Y chromosome are referred to as sex-linked genes. This is because the inheritance of these genes is dependent upon the sex of the individual. For example, only males can inherit genes located on the Y chromosome (because males have XY and females have XX).
What are the genes carries on the x and y chromosomes called?
The genes carried on the X chromosome are called X-linked genes, while the genes carried on the Y chromosome are called Y-linked genes. These genes play a role in determining various traits and characteristics in individuals.
Genes that are carried on either the X or the Y chrmosome?
Genes that are carried on the X or Y chromosome are referred to as sex-linked genes. The X chromosome contains a larger number of genes compared to the Y chromosome, which has fewer genes primarily associated with male sex determination and spermatogenesis. Inheritance patterns of these genes can lead to sex-linked traits, such as hemophilia or color blindness, which are often more prominent in males due to their single X chromosome. Traits linked to the Y chromosome, however, are passed from father to son and are less common.
What is the name of genes that are carried on the same chromosome?
Genes that are located on the same chromosome are called linked genes. These genes tend to be inherited together during cell division because they are physically close to each other on the same chromosome.
Genes that are carried on the X or the Y chromosome?
Sex-Linked genes.
What is the term for traits that are carried on the sex chromosome?
The term for traits that are carried on the sex chromosomes is "sex-linked traits." These traits are often associated with genes located on the X or Y chromosome, and they can exhibit different inheritance patterns in males and females due to the presence of two X chromosomes in females and one X and one Y chromosome in males. An example of a sex-linked trait is color blindness, which is commonly linked to the X chromosome.
Are there characteristic attached to the sex chromosomes other than gender?
Genetic diseases are often carried on the X chromosome. For example, hemophilia or colorblindness. Also, there are genes needed for the development of a fetus on the X chromosome. Scientists don't know their location, but they do know that a baby cannot be born without an X chromosome.
What are sub-units of a chromosome that determine specific traits are called?
gene (I think...) The units of a chromosome that code for traits are genes.
Mother inherits color blindness what example is this?
Human being is the best example for this type of inheritance because the gene responsible for colorblindness is present on the X chromosome. Thus a heterozygous female is the carrier of colorblindness and some of the sons from this mother receiving the X chromosome with a gene for colorblindness will be colorblind because in males the other sex chromosome is Y, which remains neutral for such genes.
What is the Specific units of a chromosome that carry individual traits?
genes
What role do DNA and chromosomes play in heredity?
according to the chromosome theory of inheritance,genes are carried from parents to their offspring on chromosomes.
When are sex link traits due to occur?
Traits caused by proteins coded for on the sex (X and/or Y) chromosomes.
Are sex linked traits also called X-linked traits?
Because the Y chromosome is so small and has relatively few genes, most sex-linked traits are governed by genes of the X sex chromosome, and are therefore X-linked.
