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Lesson: Chapter 20 — Heredity

20.6. Genetic disorders 1 of 8

Question 1

Why are recessive sex-linked conditions much more common in men than in women?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A man has only one X chromosome, so a single recessive allele is unopposed. A woman needs the recessive allele on both her X chromosomes before it shows; a man needs it once.

Nothing about dominance has changed. There is simply no second allele for a dominant one to be dominant over.

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