Color blindness occurs in about 8% of North American men of European descent, but only about 4% of North American men of African descent. Assuming X-linked recessive inheritance for color blindness, what frequencies of color blindness would you expect in each of these populations?

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.