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What can’t males be carriers of sex linked disorders?

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A carrier does not show disease symptoms, but can pass on the disease-causing allele to offspring. Genes that are located on the sex chromosomes. ... Males cannot be carriers of a sex-linked disorder because they do not have a second X chromosome to make it a carrier.
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