Can one cause a characteristic to become sex-linked?

Subject: Can one cause a characteristic to become sex-linked?

Date: Fri Jul 27 00:58:40 2001
Posted by Charlie
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Area of science: Genetics
ID: 996209920.Ge

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  Since the crossing-over phenomena of meosis allows chunks of the genome to
move about, could one theoretically selectively breed animals to make a trait
sex-linked that was not previously sex-linked?
  More importantly, has anyone ever attempted this experiment, to prove or
disprove the hypothesis?

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