Practice
Quiz for Sex Linked Genes
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Sex-linked
genetically inherited traits:
- can
appear in both males and females
- are
only found in males
- are
only found in females
- result
from premarital sexual intercourse
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Y-linked
traits are inherited:
- only
by females
- only
by males
- by
both males and females
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Harmful
X-linked traits are:
- inherited
only from mothers
- more
numerous than Y-linked ones
- most
likely to show up in the phenotype of daughters
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Red-green
color blindness is:
- an
X-linked trait
- a
Y-linked trait
- both
X and Y linked
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Men
with red-green color blindness inherited the genes for it from:
- their
mothers
- their
fathers
- either
their mothers or fathers
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Parents
of a color blind female could have the genotypes
- XCXc
and XCY
- XcXc
and XCY
- XCXc
and XcY
- XCXC
and XcY
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Sex-linked
traits appear more often in males than in females because
- males
are produced in greater numbers
- females
with a sex-linked trait will die
- males
have only one X chromosome
- sex-linked
traits are carried on the Y chromosome
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A
woman who is a carrier for hemophilia can expect what percentage of her
sons to have the disease?
- 1/4
- 1/2
- 3/4
- 4/4
(ALL)