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词汇 sex-linked
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Definition of sex-linked in English:

sex-linked

adjective
Biology
  • 1Tending to be associated with one sex or the other.

    〔主生〕伴性的,某一性别特有的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This result confirms sex-linked character of the importance of a mate's look in the long-term mating.
    • We resist recognizing that our most serious social problems are sex-linked.
    • The sound anthropological position is that certain sex-linked behaviors are biologically based, although subject to cultural modifications within limits.
    • I'm pretty convinced that baldness is genetic but isn't sex-linked.
    1. 1.1 (of a gene or heritable characteristic) carried by a sex chromosome.
      (基因,遗传特征)由性染色体携带的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • CVD is known as a sex-linked recessive disorder.
      • 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.
      • Some genetic diseases are associated with X and Y chromosomes and are described as sex-linked, while genetic diseases due to gene defects on the non-sex chromosomes are called autosomal; i.e. these can affect males and females alike.
      • 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.
      • The disorder is inherited as a sex-linked trait, with the HGPRT gene on the X chromosome.

Derivatives

  • sex linkage

  • noun
    Biology
    • In total, 21 clones were tested for sex linkage, and one of the clones, c2B12, appeared to correspond to a sex-linked gene.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Second, many sexually selected traits exhibit patterns of inheritance that, to date, have been interpreted as being the result of sex linkage.
      • None of the primer pairs amplified markers that were perfectly associated with sex in D. cannabina, but eight markers showed loose sex linkage.
      • 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.
      • 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).

Definition of sex-linked in US English:

sex-linked

adjectiveˈsɛksˌlɪŋktˈseksˌliNGkt
Biology
  • 1Tending to be associated with one sex or the other.

    〔主生〕伴性的,某一性别特有的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We resist recognizing that our most serious social problems are sex-linked.
    • This result confirms sex-linked character of the importance of a mate's look in the long-term mating.
    • The sound anthropological position is that certain sex-linked behaviors are biologically based, although subject to cultural modifications within limits.
    • I'm pretty convinced that baldness is genetic but isn't sex-linked.
    1. 1.1 (of a gene or heritable characteristic) carried by a sex chromosome.
      (基因,遗传特征)由性染色体携带的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • CVD is known as a sex-linked recessive disorder.
      • 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.
      • The disorder is inherited as a sex-linked trait, with the HGPRT gene on the X chromosome.
      • Some genetic diseases are associated with X and Y chromosomes and are described as sex-linked, while genetic diseases due to gene defects on the non-sex chromosomes are called autosomal; i.e. these can affect males and females alike.
      • 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.
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