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If a colour-blind man marries a woman who is homozygous for normal colour vision, the probability of their son being colour-blind is:

  1. A
    1
  2. B
    0
  3. C
    0.5
  4. D
    0.75

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Colour blindness is an X-linked recessive trait.Man: Woman: Progeny: (carrier girls), (carrier girls), (normal boys), (normal boys).Since the father gives the Y chromosome to his sons and the mother gives a normal X, the probability of a son being colour-blind is 0.

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If a colour-blind man marries a woman who is homozygous for normal colour vision, the probability of their son being colour-blind is:
A
1
B
0
C
0.5
D
0.75

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