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How many recessive sex-linked alleles are required for a female to have a sex-linked disorder? why?

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For a female to have a sex-linked disorder, she would typically need to inherit two recessive sex-linked alleles, one from each parent. This is because females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome.

In sex-linked inheritance, the gene responsible for the disorder is located on the X chromosome. If a female inherits a defective X chromosome from one parent, but a healthy X chromosome from the other parent, she may not develop the disorder because the healthy X chromosome can compensate for the defective one. However, if she inherits two defective X chromosomes (one from each parent), she would not have a healthy X chromosome to compensate for the defective ones, and therefore, she may develop the sex-linked disorder.

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