What is a significant difference between X-linked and sex-influenced inheritances?

A) X-linked inheritance affects females and sex-influenced inheritance affects males.
B) Sex-influenced inheritance requires epistasis. X-linked inheritance does not.
C) There are no differences. They are the same.
D) X-limited inheritance is only recessive. Sex-influenced inheritance can be recessive or dominant.
E) In X-linked inheritance, the gene in question is on the X chromosome; in sex-influenced inheritance, the gene is autosomal.


Answer: E

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