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What is criss cross inheritance of traits?

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CRISS-CROSS INHERITANCE:
It 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 first generation. The sex linked characters exhibit criss-cross inheritance.

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