Question

What is sex influenced character?

Answer 1

Hint: Certain characters are not correlated with sex chromosomes but are limited to one sex simply. Such characters are identified as sex influenced traits or characters. In several organisms, some genes are influenced by the sex of the organism i.e. these are expressed more often in one sex than the other.

Complete answer:
Sex influenced characters are autosomal traits that are expressed under the influence of sex hormones. If a male has one recessive allele, he will express that character, but it will take two recessives for the female to show that same trait.

Sex-influenced Character, a genetic feature that may come out in organisms of both sexes but is expressed to an unlike degree in each. The character appears to act as a dominant in one sex and a recessive in the other.

Additional information:
Different hormonal amounts and environments influence the expression of heterozygotes of a trait but homozygotes are unchanged and express unrelated to the hormones released.
Example - the pattern of baldness in humans which is dominant in males whereas recessive in females, Length of index finger Body hair, and Muscle mass.

Note: Sex-linked traits are traits like sickle cell anemia and color blindness. They are linked because more males (XY) build these traits than females (XX). The reason for that, the females have a second X gene to neutralize the recessive trait. Thus, the trait is more probable to be visible in the male.
Sex limited characters are the traits that are expressed only in one sex (either male or female) and not in others.
Examples – milk production in mammals, egg production in chicken.