Biology: Science for Life with Physiology (6th Edition) (Belk, Border & Maier, The Biology: Science for Life Series, 5th Edition)
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Author: Colleen Belk, Virginia Borden Maier
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Chapter 8, Problem 10LTB
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Sex-linked recessive disorders pass down in a family from X and Y sex chromosomes. In such disorders, if only one gene is abnormal, then the disease will not occur. The person carrying on one abnormal gene is the carrier of the disease. Mostly such disorders are X-linked traits.
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