IMPORTANT TERMS

sex

sex determination

sex chromosome

autosome

heterogametic sex

homogametic sex

pseudoautosomal region

genic sex determination

Turner syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome

triple-X syndrome

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sex-determining region Y (SRY) gene

sex-linked characteristic

X-linked characteristic

Y-linked characteristic

hemizygosity

dosage compensation

Barr body

Lyon hypothesis

complete dominance

incomplete dominance

codominance

incomplete penetrance

penetrance

expressivity

lethal allele

multiple alleles

compound heterozygote

gene interaction

epistasis

epistatic gene

hypostatic gene

complementation test

complementation

sex-influenced characteristic

sex-limited characteristic

cytoplasmic inheritance

genetic maternal effect

genomic imprinting

epigenetics

temperature-sensitive allele

phenocopy

discontinuous characteristic

continuous characteristic

quantitative characteristic

polygenic characteristic

pleiotropy

multifactorial characteristic