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Sex LInked Trait Note Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. How is gender determined in reptiles? | environmental |
| 2. How is gender determined in mammals? | genetics |
| 3. What do you call the 22 human chromosomes that have nothing to do with gender-based traits? | autosomal chromosomes |
| 4. What pair of chromosomes in the human cell are not homologous? | sex determining chromosome |
| 5. What chromosome determines male-ness? | The y-chromosome (yy or xy) |
| 6. Which is the result of a homozygous recessive condition- maleness or femaleness? | Female (xx) |
| 7. What sex chromosomes are found in sperm cells? | both x and y |
| 8. What on the X chromosome makes male reproductive organs develop? | SRY |
| 9. What is the relationship between color-blindness, hempophelia and X chromosomes? | mutations that cause colorblindness and hemophelia are found on the X chromosomes |
| 10. A female who is XXh does NOT have hemophelia, why? | hemophelia is recessive, so both chromosomes need to have the hemophelia trait |
| 11. What is a carrier? | someone who carries a gene for a trait, but the trait is not expressed |
| 12. A man who is XhY DOES have hemophelia, why? | All of the x chromosomes he has have the hemo trait |
| 13. What are the only 2 chromosomes that can carry sex-linked traits? | X &Y |