Question

Pattern baldness, moustaches, and beard in human males are examples of :

• A. Sex linked traits
• B. Sex limited traits
• C. Sex differentiating traits
• D. Sex determining traits

Answer 1

The correct option is B Sex limited traits

Traits or characters which develop only in one sex are called sex-limited characters. They are produced and controlled by the genes which may be located on autosomes in only one sex, eg. Moustaches and beards in human males, breast in human females, milk secretion in human females
Sex-linked traits are those like color blindness or hemophilia, which show the criss-cross pattern of inheritance of certain genes together along with sex-determining genes because of their presence on the sex chromosomes.