Male-pattern baldness is a recessive sex linked trait in which affected people
become bald
Sample Test Cross: male with Xby mated female with XBXb genotype
Genotypes: XB = no baldness (dominant)
Xb=male-pattern baldness (recessive)
Using Punnet Square:
Xb Y
to
XBXb
XBY
xo
XbY
Xb Xb
Genotypes
Phenotypes
XBXb
Female normal
Xb Xb
Female bald
XBY
Male normal XbY
Male bald
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No, baldness is not an example of sex- linked genes. But it is an example of sex- influenced genes.
It may occur in some cases, due to disease or other environmental factors, but is of generally a hereditary character, which is more prevalent in men, than in women. Studies on the mode of inheritance of baldness have shown that it is not inherited in the same way as the recessive sex-linked genes.
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