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A woman with normal vision, but whose father was colour blind, marries a colour blind man. Suppose that the fourth child of this couple was a boy. This boy

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Must have normal colour vision
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May be colour blind or may be normal vision
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Will be partially colour blind since he is heterozygous for the colour blind mutant allele
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Must be colour blind
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The correct option is D May be colour blind or may be normal vision
The woman will be a genetic carrier - XXc and man will be XcY.
The possible offspring are : XXc, XY (normal son), XcXc and XcY (color blind son).
50% chance for the son to be colour blind.

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