sex-limited

American

[seks-lim-i-tid] / ˈsɛksˌlɪm ɪ tɪd /

adjective

Genetics.

(of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.

sex-limited British

adjective

genetics of or designating a character or the gene producing it that appears in one sex only

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Etymology

Origin of sex-limited

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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Working on a species of African butterfly, the Squinting Bush Brown, researchers from the University of Liverpool have discovered a radically different molecular switch that does not require a sex-limited gene or chromosome.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2024

But such a selection could take place only if mental traits were sex-limited in inheritance, or existed as secondary sex characteristics.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

The phenomenon is expressed, biologically, in the term, "sex-limited factor"—an incalculable something in the embryo which limits its sex to the sex of one only of its parents.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

The real problem, then, is the sex-limited heredity, and we shall consider later whether in this kind of heredity also there are characters of internal as well as external origin, blastogenic as well as somatogenic.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

It may be said that any part of the soma may in different cases present a sex-limited development.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

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