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SEX-LINKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concerning characteristics that are determined by genes carried on the sex chromosomes (on the X chromosome in particular)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
sex linkage (an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other)
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