Question

Characteristics of criss cross inheritance

Answer 1

Answer:

CRISS-CROSS INHERITANCE: It is the transmission of a gene from mother to son or father to daughter. Those patterns of inheritance are called crisscross inheritance or skip generation inheritance, in which a character is inherited to the second generation through the carrier of first generation.

Answer 2

Characteristics of criss cross inheritance are as follows:-

1. In criss-cross inhertance female or male parent is transferred to X- linked characters to the grandson or to the grand daughter through the offspring of opposite sex.

2. Criss cross inheritance is also called as skip generation.

3. We can say that in this carrier is passed to son by mother and from the blind father to daughter.

4. They carry chrosomes of X°- recessive allele.

5. Colour blindness is just like criss cross inheritance.