Color Blindness Is More Common in Males Than in Females

question 34

Multiple Choice

Color blindness is more common in males than in females because

• A) females need to inherit only one copy of the recessive color blindness allele to express the trait.
• B) males only need to inherit the recessive maternal color blindness allele to be color blind.
• C) Color blindness is an autosomal trait.
• D) all females are hemizygous for the color blindness trait.
• E) males can only inherit paternal color blindness alleles.

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