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Sex-linked disorders are those that are inherited from genes located on the sex chromosomes, X or Y in humans. Some examples of X-linked disorders are Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, hemophilia and red-green colorblindness. An example of a Y-linked disorder is called hairy ears.

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What are 2 human sex-linked disorders?

Hemophilia, Colorblindness, Tay-Sachs, Muscular Dystrophy, etc..


Name a sex-linked genetic disorder?

Many different disorders are sex-linked. Saying something is sex-linked indicates that the gene causing the disorder can be found on one of the sex chromosomes, certain muscle disorders for example are sex-linked


Why do men have more sex-linked disorders than women?

If you are a carrier of a sex-linked genetic disorder, you will carry that disorder based on your sex hormones, because they influence the appearance of the trait. A person who carries the trait will have the disease but may not show it. ---- Sex-linked disorders are genetic disorders linked directly to a human's chromosomes. In the case of chromosomes, females (XX) give an X chromosome to their offspring. Males (XY) can give either an X or a Y chromosome to their offspring. Because only males can have a Y chromosome, sex-linked disorders usually occur in males.


How is sex linked traits are different than autosomal traits?

Sex linked traits are of 2 types X linked ,which are transmitted from maternal grand parent to maternal grand children through carrier daughter , and Y linked are transmitted from father to son , whiles autosomal genes transmit equally among children .


Is type 1 diabetes sex-linked or sex-influenced?

Researchers have not shown any gender linkage with type 1 (or type-2) diabetes.


How x linked traits affect the inheritance of sex linked traits?

Females have 2 X chromosomes so the X-linked genes follow the same rules of dominance & recessivity as the genes on the autosomes.


In X-linked recessive inheritance what sex is the affected?

There are 2 X-linked recessive inheritance where Only Male or Men are the only people who inherits these kind of trait.


How many of sex chomosome and autosome are in a human somatic cell?

44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes are present in human somatic cells .


Which is an inherited sex-linked disorder of the blood in which the blood cannot clot due to absence of a blood clotting protein?

hemophilia there are 2 types


What are 2 human genetic diseases that have been linked to elongations of base triplet repeats?

Hunington's disease and Fragile X syndrome


What is the ploidy of cells?

Human somatic cells are diploid, 2n. Human sex cells are haploid, n. Thus, the ploidy of human cells is 2, while n=23.


Why are sex linked genes inherited differently than non sex linked genes?

In human cells, each cell nucleus contains pairs of chromosomes where one half of the pair is inherited from the mother (in the egg) and the other half inherited from the father (in the sperm).Sperm and eggs are produced by a special cell division process called 'meiosis' which tears the chromosome pair in the parent's cell nucleus into 2 halves, each half going into a separate sperm or egg.The sex chromosomes in humans (and may other but not allorganisms) are labeled:-'X' and 'Y'. Male cells contain the pair 'XY' and Female cell contain the pair 'XX'Thus when males produce sperm and the chromosome pair is torn in half, 50% end up with the 'Y' half and and 50% with the 'X' half.If a 'Y' sperm fertilizes the egg the offspring will be male, if the 'X' sperm fertilizes the egg the offspring will be female.Thus as the sex related genes are found along the length of the sex chromosomes, in males the genes that inherited on the Y chromosome are different from those in females. The key is that the sex linked genes are located on DIFFERENT chromosomes.