16) Sex-limited (determined) traits and inheritance

Question 1

What are sex-limited traits

Answer 1

Manifestation of traits only in one of the sexes

• Show different phenotype with the same genotype
• Can be differences in morphology, colour, size and behaviour

Question 2

Give examples of sex-limited traits

Answer 2

• Milk production
• Egg production
• Cryptorchism (absence of testis)
• White heifer disease

Question 3

White heifer disease

Answer 3

• Shorthorn cattle
• White colour in female cows → Sterility