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? asked in Science & MathematicsBiology · 8 years ago

Biology X linked dominant?

A male affected with an x linked dominant disorder will pass the disease on to what percentage of his sons and what percentage of his daugthers? Assume the mothers is homozygous and does not carry the disorder

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  • 8 years ago
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    None of his sons will have the disorder and all of his daughters will be affected.

    This is because sons get 1 X from their mother and 1 Y from their father.

    The disease is in the X chromosome, so getting Y from the father is fine.

    Daughters have 1 X from their mother and 1 X from their father.

    Since the disease is X linked and the father only has XY, the only X he can give is a diseased one. The disease is dominant, so even paired with a healthy X from the mother, all the girls will be affected.

  • 8 years ago

    in this case you would make a punnet square. put xx on one side for the mom, and xy (make some kind of mark on the x because its affected). if you solve the square, you will see that 100% of the daughters are affected because the x from the dad is dominant. it affects 0% of the sons because the mom doesnt carry the disorder and the sons get the dad's y chromosome but not x as it comes from the mom.

    hope this helped, and was clear to understand haha

    Source(s): in ap bio
  • 8 years ago

    All his daughters will become carriers of the disorder (they will have a 50% chance to make their sons infected and 50% chance to make their daughters carriers as well), and all his sons will become homozygous dominant (unaffected by the disease), as the male gives the Y chromosome to his son, which is not sex linked to the disorder.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    There is more chance to affecting this disorder to daughter,hence the daughter get x from his father. But son has no problem with this, Because he get an x from his mother..

    (The reason- Male have XY chromosome and female have XX chromosome.So Female gets one x from her father and other from her mother. Male get x from his mother and Y from his father.)

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