sex-linkedadjective
uk/ˈseks.lɪŋkt/us/ˈseks.lɪŋkt/If a characteristic of a living thing is sex-linked, it is found only among males or only among females:
Haemophilia is a sex-linked disease.
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Genetics
- adenine
- anaphase
- chromosomal
- codon
- deoxyribonucleic acid
- double helix
- gene therapy
- genetic code
- GMO
- heredity
- Human Genome Project
- inheritance
- mutation
- oncogene
- recessive
- ribosomal RNA
- ribosome
- sex chromosome
- synapsis
- translocation
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