What traits do daughters inherit from their fathers? (2024)

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Fathers have both X and Y chromosomes. So they contribute one Y or one X chromosome to their offspring.
Daughters get two X chromosomes, one from Mother and one from Father.
So Daughter will inherit X-linked genes from her father as well as her mother.
Examples of X-linked recessive disorders are hemophilia, red-green color blindness, and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

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A family consists of two parents and their five children and the pedigree chart below shows the inheritance fo the trait colour blindness in them.

(a) Who is colour blind in the parents - the Father or the Mother?
(b) How many daughters and how many sons have been born in the family?
(c) What does the child 1 indicate about this trait?
(d) On which chromosome is the gene of this trait located?
(e) Name one other trait in humans which follows the similar pattern of inheritance.

Q. A family consists of two parents and their five children and the pedigree chart below shows the inheritance of the trait colour blindness.
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(i) Who is colour blind in the parents - Father or Mother?
(ii) How many daughters and sons have been born in the family?
(iii) What does the child 1 indicate about this trait?
(iv) Complete the depiction of all probabilities of the trait among the children 2-5 in the chart.
(v) On which chromosome is the gene of this trait located?
(vi) Name one other trait in humans which follows the similar mode of inheritance.