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Which explains why males are more likely to have sex-linked recessive traits than females?

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Males are more likely to inherit sex-linked traits because they have only one chromosome that can carry a trait. If a male gets a recessive sex-linked trait, they will always acquire it because they have no other chromosome that will dominant over the recessive.

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