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Red-green colour blindness is a sex-linked trait. Red-green colour blindness (Xrg) is the inability to distinguish between red and green colours. The Xrg allele is recessive to the normal X-linked allele.
A normal woman has a father who has red-green colour blindness. She had a child with a man who does not have red-green colour blindness.
What is the probability they will have a son with red-green colour blindness?
A normal woman has a father who has red-green colour blindness. She had a child with a man who does not have red-green colour blindness.
What is the probability they will have a son with red-green colour blindness?
Select one:
a. 0
b. 0.13
c. 0.25
d. 0.50
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