If a color blind woman marries a normal visioned man, their sons will be:
Correct answer: A. All colour blind
- A. All colour blind
- B. All normal visioned
- C. Onehalf colour blind and onehalf normal
- D. Threefourths colour blind and onefourth normal
Explanation
Colour blindness is a recessive sexlinked trait. Colour blindness is a recessive sexlinked trait.All sons will be colour blind and all daughters will be carriers.ill be carriers. If a color blind woman (XXc) marries a normal-visioned man (XY), all of their sons will inherit one X chromosome from the mother (Xc) and one Y chromosome from the father (Y). Since the sons receive the Y chromosome from the father, they will not inherit the color blindness allele from the father. However, they will inherit the X chromosome with the color blindness allele from the mother. Therefore, all of their sons will be color blind.
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