Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set
Problem 7: Red-green color blindness in humans
Tutorial to help answer the question
A human female "carrier" who is heterozygous for the recessive, sex-linked trait causing red-green color blindness (or alternatively, hemophilia), marries a normal male. What proportion of their male progeny will
have red-green color blindness (or alternatively, will be hemophiliac)?
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Tutorial
Genotypes and phenotypes of parents
The eggs of the mother will contain either a normal X chromosome or an X chromosome with the mutation causing red-green color blindness.
The sperm of the father will contain either the normal X chromosome or the Y chromosome.
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Genotypes and phenotypes of offspring
None of the female children would be red-green color blind, but half would be "carriers."
Half of the sons would inherit the allele from their mother and be afflicted.
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For help on setting up and interpreting a punnet square review the tutorial of problem 1 in Monohybrid Cross of Mendelian Genetics.
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