Timeline for How could a bloodline ability manifest in one sex but not the other?
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| Dec 27, 2018 at 14:10 | comment | added | Christmas Snow | In case you need that the gene be active only among females, it must be active when the embryo receives a pair of X (one from mother, one from father), i.e. the embryo is a female. If the embryo is XY (male), he has one X from the mother and Y from father. The X-gene is "lonely" and therefore inactive. Some of the X genes are just like that, so the male does not have developed female organs. | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 13:35 | comment | added | G0BLiN | Note that you can't have a strictly maternal bloodline based on sex chromosomes - a father will pass his X chromosome to his daughters... | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 12:13 | history | answered | Christmas Snow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |