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Sex Linkage: Characters Which Are Associate More With One Gender
Sex Linkage: Characters Which Are Associate More With One Gender
X XX XY
X XX XY
What is it?
Sex Linkage is the phenotypic expression of an
allele that is related to the chromosomal sex of
an individual
Heterogametic
So what do you think?
Which of the two, homogametic or
heterogametic, do you think will have
expression of the genetic disorders more
often?
But hold on, what does this mean for the female
with regards to passing on her genes?
What can she be?
She can actually be a carrier
What is a carrier?
A carrier is an individual that has two alleles, one
damaged one and one regular
Their phenotypes are the same as a regular individual
Why?
What kind of progeny would we
expect?
The progeny
We saw in the last photo that you can get
normal males and females if the mother is a
carrier, and you can also get carrier females and
affected sons
II
III
IV
Organising the pedigree chart
Individuals in each generation are identified by Arabic
numerals numbered from the left
Therefore the affected individuals are II3, IV2 and IV3
I
II
III
IV
So now that we have seen that, lets
try some problems