An example of a sex-linked trait?

Answer 1

The best known examples in humans are color-blindness and muscular dystrophy. Males are the ones that are the most vulnerable because the Y chromosome is shorter than the X chromosomes that females have.

Answer 2

Most sex linked traits are linked to the X chromosome, for example diseases like hemophilia, G6PD, Fragile X syndrome, Lesh-Nyhan, Duchenne Muscular dystrophy, and also red-green color blindness. These are all inherited from a mutant or diseased X chromosome, and there are 2 patterns of inheritance: recessive and dominant. Most of the X linked diseases are inherited in a recessive pattern, very few are inherited as dominant alleles, for example Fragile X syndrome.

Y linked diseases are very rare, even in clinical practice.

Answer 3

Sex-linked traits are governed by genes on a sex chromosome. They are usually X-linked because the Y-chromosome carries so few genes. Two examples of X-linked traits are red-green colorblindness and hemophilia.

Answer 4

Red-green color blindness is an example of a sex-linked trait. It is more common in males because the gene associated with red-green color blindness is located on the X chromosome, and males have only one X chromosome. Females are less likely to be color blind because they have two X chromosomes, which provides a backup copy of the gene.

Answer 5

Examples of sex-linked traits are colorblindness, hemophilia, and baldness.

Answer 6

Color blindness , hemophilia , white eye genes etc.

Answer 7

not blue eyes, most likely baldness