SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE

BY:MONICA HAPOR
IN THIS LESSON WE MAKE SOME ACTIVITIES/SEATWORK TO HOW TO GET THE GENOTYPE
AND PHENOTYPE. AND ONE OF WE TACKLE TO US THIS. MOST ANIMALS AND MANY PLANTS
SHOW SEXUAL DIMORPHISM ; IN OTHER WORDS ,AN INDIVIDUAL CAN BE EITHER MALE OR
FEMALE .YES, THEY CAN. BUT AS HUMAN BEING WE NEED TO HAVE A PARTNER TO PRODUCE
A CHILD. BY SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE WE DETERMINDE IF A BABY IS A BOY OR GIRL .
HUMAN BODY CELLS HAVE 46 CHROMOSOMES: 22 HOMOLOGOUS PAIR OF AUTOSOME PLUS 2
SEX CHROMOSOMES. IN FEMALE THERE IS A PAIR OF IDENTICAL SEX CHROMOSOMES CALLED
THE X CHROMOSOMES . IN MALES, THERE IS A NON-IDENTICAL PAIR,CONSISTING OF ONE X
AND Y . SO IN OTHER WORDS TO HAVE A FEMALE YOU NEED THE XX CHROMOSOMES WHILE A
MALE IS XY CHROMOSOMES . THERE ARE SOME DISEASE THAT CAN PASS ON THERE
SON/DAUGHTER ONE OF THESE IS THE COLOR BLINDNESS. COLOR BLINDNESS IS A
RECESSIVE TRAIT AND IT IS A X-LINKED TRAIT EXAMPLE. A FEMALE BACOME A COLOR BLIND
,SHE MUST BE HOMOZYGOUS FOR THE COLOR BIND GENES. THE TRAIT IS, THEREFORE
,RECESSIVE IN FEMALES . IF A FEMALE HAS THE ONLY ONE X CHROMOSOME WITH THE ALLELE
FOR COLOR BLINDNESS SHE BECOMES NORMAL BUT CAN PASS ON THE TRAIT TO HER
OFFSPRING . SHE IS THEREFORE A CARRIER OF THE TRAIT. SINCE MALES HAVE ONLY ONE X
CHROMOSOME, THE GENE FOR COLOR BLINDNESS WHEN PRESENT IN THE MALE ,WILL
ALWAYS BE EXPRESSED BECAUSE IT DOES NOT HAVE AN ALLELE TO HIDE OR PREVENT ITS
EXPRESSION . THUS, THE MALE WILL BE COLOR BLIND . THIS IS THE REASON WHY COLOR
BLINDNESS IS MORE COMMON IN MALES.

SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE IS ONE OF THE EASIEST TO DO TO KNOW HOW TO TRANSFER THE

HEREDITY OF OUR PARENTS TO US . BUT ACTUALLY WE DIDNT KNOW WHAT WILL BE OUR
GENDER. ONLY GOD KNOWS. BE THANKFUL OF WHAT HE GIVE TO US.
GENES
BY: MONICA HAPOR
IN THIS LESSON, GENES IS CONNECTED TO THE DNA. DNA (DEOXYRIBOSENUCLE ACID) THIS IS
THE CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE THAT IS REPRESENT IN THE NUCLEUS OF ALL CELLS IN ALL LIVING
ORGANISM LIKE ANIMALS, PLANTS AND HUMAN. GENE IS A UNIT OF HEREDITY THAT IS
TRANSFERRED FROM A PARENT TO OFFSPRING AND IS HELD TO DETERMINE WHERE DID
YOU GET YOUR PHYSICAL APPEARANCE IF TO YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER. THE
TRANSMISSION OF GENEST TO AN ORGANISMS OFFSPRING IS THE BASES OF THE
INHERITANCE OF PHENOTYPIC TRAITS. PHENOTYPIC TRAITS IS A MEASURABLE TRAITS (I.E
HAIR COLOR,UNDERLYING GENE)WHICH MAKE UP TO GENOTYPIC "CONTROL" THE HAIR
COLOR. GENOTYPE IS THE (DNA SEQUENCE) TO THE GENETIC MAKE UP OF A CELL AND
THEREFORE OF AN ORGANISM OR INDIVIDUAL WHICH DETERMINES SPECIFIC CHARATERISTIC
(PHENOTYPE). SOME GENETIC TRAITS ARE INSTANTLY VISIBLE SUCH AS EYE COLOUR OR
NUMBER OF LIMBS AND SOME ARE NOT,SUCH AS BLOOD TYPE,RISK FOR SPECIFIC DISEASES
OR THE THOUSAND OF BASIC CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT COMPRISE LIFE.

GENES LOCATED ON THE X CHROMOSOMES ARE CALLE X-LINKED GENES. GENES ON THE Y
CHROMOSOMES ARE CALLE Y-LINKED GENES. AN EXAMPLE OF AN X-LINKED TRAIT IN HUMANS
IS HEMOPHILIA. A PERSON SUFFERING FROM HEMOPHILIA COULD DIE FROM LOSS OF BLOOD
EVEN FROM A SMALL WOUND BECAUSE THE BLOOD EITHER CLOTS VERY SLOWLY OR DOES
NOT CLOT AT ALL. HEMOPHILIA IS A RECESSIVE TRAITS. (EX: IF A FEMALE WHO IS
HOMOZYGOUS FOR NORMAL BLOOD CLOTTING AND SHE MARRIED A MAN WHO HAS
HEMOPHILIA .THERE'S A CHANCE THAT THERE 2 DAUGHTER WILL BE A CARRIER AND
THERE 2 SON WILL BE NORMAL)

GENES IS ALSO ONE OF THE REASON THAT DETERMINE OF WHO IS REALLY OUR PARENTS IF
YOU ARE MISSING. TO MODIFY THAT IF YOU THERE REALLY THERE CHILD USING THE DNA.
GENES IS IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE WE DID NOT DETERMINE IF WE ARE A BOY OR GIRL