Red-Green Color Blindness Is an X-Linked Recessive Condition

question 45

Short Answer

Red-green color blindness is an X-linked recessive condition. Juliet has a bit of difficulty passing the red-green color distinction test when she tries to get her driver's license. Her husband is not color blind, and neither is her son, Henry, nor her daughter, Roxanne. Roxanne has a son who is color blind. What is Juliet's genotype for the color-blindness allele? How would you explain her partial color blindness?

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