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Standard XII

Biology

Sex Determination in Humans

Criss cross i...

Question

Criss cross inheritance discovered by Morgan, means

X chromosome from male will pass to a male of next generation

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X chromosome from a male will pass to a female of next generation

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X chromosome from female will pass to female of next generation

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Y chromosome from male will pass to a male of next generation

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Solution

The correct option is B X chromosome from male will pass to a male of next generation
Crisscross inheritance in which a character is inherited to the and generation through the carrier of the first generation. Morgan observed that the difference was due to the inheritance of a recessive gene located on the X-chromosome.
So the correct answer is 'X chromosome from a male will pass to a female of next generation'.

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