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sex-limited

[ seks-lim-i-tid ]

adjective

Genetics.
  1. (of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.


sex-limited

adjective

  1. genetics of or designating a character or the gene producing it that appears in one sex only
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sex-limited1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Working on a species of African butterfly, the Squinting Bush Brown, researchers from the University of Liverpool have discovered a radically different molecular switch that does not require a sex-limited gene or chromosome.

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No mental trait has ever been proved to be sex-limited in inheritance, or to exist as a secondary sex character.

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The phenomenon is expressed, biologically, in the term, "sex-limited factor"—an incalculable something in the embryo which limits its sex to the sex of one only of its parents.

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However, these books stop where the problems of human life begin and should be supplemented by lessons for sex-limited classes.

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In other words, the defect is more or less sex-limited.

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