Color Blindness Is an X-Linked Recessive Gene

question 50

Short Answer

Color blindness is an X-linked recessive gene. Two normal-vision parents produce a color-blind child.
(a)Is this child male or female?
(b)What are the genotypes of the parents?
(c)What are the chances that their next child will be a color-blind daughter?

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