Is "X-linked" another way to describe a disease as "sex-linked"?
Does "X-linked" mean the same thing as "sex-linked?"?
Most of the sex-linked traits you study in genetics class are on the X chromosome, so sex-linked and X-linked are the same thing.
If a sex-linked trait were on the Y-chromosome, the problem would say so specifically because this is the *exception*, not the normal problem. In all the genetics problems I've ever assigned, written, or test on, the sex-linked trait was on the X and the two terms were interchangeable.
Reply:yes/no ..... then what about Y genes...they are sex-linked but not X-linked.
Reply:yes x-linked is the same because it refers to the x chromosome.
there are very few genes on y chromosome and generally don't have diseases caused by mutations.
the x chromosome has genes not related to sex such as hemophelia or color blindness. y does not
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