sex-linked
adjective chiefly Biology
1Tending to be associated with one sex or the other.I'm pretty convinced that baldness is genetic but isn't sex-linked....
- The sound anthropological position is that certain sex-linked behaviors are biologically based, although subject to cultural modifications within limits.
- We resist recognizing that our most serious social problems are sex-linked.
1.1(Of a gene or heritable characteristic) carried by a sex chromosome.The disorder is inherited as a sex-linked trait, with the HGPRT gene on the X chromosome....
- However, males who inherit an X chromosome with a gene for a sex-linked disease have no second X to fall back on and, therefore, have the disease.
- Hemophilia A, a sex-linked recessive trait carried by females and manifested in males, is a blood-clotting disorder brought about by a deficiency in certain substances responsible for normal blood coagulation.
Derivatives
sex linkage
- Some sex linkage could be drawn, for example, from the fact that initial onset of sleep paralysis usually occurs during adolescence (for example, Kotorii et al. 2001).
- To fill out the form, the students have to grasp such concepts as dominance, incomplete dominance, temperature-sensitive mutations, epistatic interactions, sex linkage, and variable expressivity.
- In total, 21 clones were tested for sex linkage, and one of the clones, c2B12, appeared to correspond to a sex-linked gene.