Sex-linked disorders are passed on the X chromosome. The man supplies the Y chromosome to his sons so the disorder cannot be passed on to the sons. But the man gives his daughter an X chromosome so the disorder can be passed on to her.
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No. Recessive genetic traits (not all are defined as disorders) can be passed from either parent.
X-linked traits carried by the father will be passed on to his daughters. Sons will inherit their X chromosome from their mother and their Y chromosome from their father, so they will not inherit X-linked traits from their father.
If the couple has a color-blind son, it would indicate that color blindness is caused by an X-linked recessive allele. This is because sons inherit their single X chromosome from their mother, who carries the recessive allele for color blindness but does not express it due to her second X chromosome providing the normal color vision gene.
In a pedigree, a sex-linked recessive trait is passed down from carrier mothers to affected sons. Daughters of carrier mothers have a 50 chance of being carriers themselves. Sons of affected fathers do not inherit the trait.
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Sex-linked disorders are passed on the X chromosome. The man supplies the Y chromosome to his sons so the disorder cannot be passed on to the sons. But the man gives his daughter an X chromosome so the disorder can be passed on to her.
All his daughters, who will inherit one copy of the X-linked allele and become carriers themselves, but not his sons. Sons inherit a Y chromosome from their father and an X chromosome from their mother.
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No. Recessive genetic traits (not all are defined as disorders) can be passed from either parent.