Question 1
Males are more often affected by which type of genetic disease?
◦ Sex-linked dominant
◦ Sex-influenced
◦ Sex-linked
◦ Sex-linked recessive
Question 2
Why an X-linked recessive disease can skip generations?
◦ Females are hemizygous for the X chromosome.
◦ The disease can be transmitted through female carriers.
◦ Mothers cannot pass X-linked genes to their sons.
◦ These diseases need only one copy of the gene in females.