Criss-cross inheritance for sex-linked human traits occurs when the father has the recessive trait and the mother has the dominant trait.

True

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Solution

The correct option is B False
Crisscross inheritance is the transmission of a gene from mother to son or father to daughter, those patterns of inheritance are called crisscross inheritance or skip generation inheritance, in which a character is inherited to the second generation through the carrier of the first generation.
So, the correct option is 'False'.

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