This type of inheritance has certain unique characteristics, which include the following In humans, the term often refers to traits or disorders influenced by genes on the x chromosome, as it contains many more genes than the smaller y chromosome X and y are two sex chromosomes that carry alleles at their gene loci These traits that are being transferred from one generation to the next generation are present on autosomes or sex chromosomes, i.e., the x chromosome or the y. In this case, the presence of just one copy of the dominant gene on the x chromosome is enough to express the trait in both males and females
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