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Why do sex linked traits follow different patterns of inheritance that other traits?

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males only need one recessive allele to have a recessive sex-linked trait.

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Because the chromosome linked with sex are XX for women and XY for men. So the boy can only get Y from his father and X from his mother. While girl can get one from the only X of her father and the other from her mother.
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