A carrier is someone who carries a recessive allele in their genotype but does not display the phenotype. Red-green color blindness is caused by a recessive allele carried on the X- chromosome. Can a male be a carrier of red-green color blindness? Explain your answer.

A carrier is someone who carries a recessive allele in their genotype but does not display the phenotype. Red-green color blindness is caused by a recessive allele carried on the X- chromosome. Can a male be a carrier of red-green color blindness? Explain your answer.

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

5th Edition

ISBN:9781305117396

Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Publisher:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Chapter9: Patterns Of Inheritance

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 10SQ

See similar textbooks

Related questions

Q: Imagine a human trait that is inherited via genetic maternal effect and found on the X chromosome…

A: It is given that the trait is X linked recessive. It means the trait is found when all X chromosomes…

Q: In this pedigree, affected individuals have a disease causing the inability to walk forward, called…

A: Genes are the hereditary unit of an organism. The genes have DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which code…

Q: Red–green color blindness is a human X-linked recessive disorder. Jill has normal color vision, but…

A: The traits can be defined as the phenotypic characteristics that are coded by the genes. The genes…

Q: sex determination is based on the inheritance of alleles at one or more loci, in the absence of…

A: In genetics, sex determination is a term used to determine the sexual development of an organism by…

Q: The most common form of colorblindness is a recessive, sex-linked hereditary con dition caused by a…

A: Color blindness is a genetic disorder which is caused by the inheritance of the mutated genes. The…

Q: What kind of sight is expected in the children from this marriage?

A: Daltonism is also known as deuteranopia which is a rare form of color blindness. In this form, the…

Q: Explain how twins could have the same genetic material but not look exactly the same or have the…

A: The development of twins occurs due to multiple pregnancies. Twins can be categorized into different…

Q: Given that the gene for the color-blind condition is recessive and X-linked. You have a female with…

A: Maternal parent has a nondisjunction at Meiosis1 or 2

Q: In humans, color blindness is a sex-linked recessive trait. A female who is a carrier (XBXb) for…

A: The allele for color blindness resides on X chromosome. So, it is a X-linked trait. It is also a…

Q: Hemophilia is another example of a X-linked disease caused when a recessive allele (Xh) is…

A: Hemophilia is a disorder where blood clots do not form normally which leads to excessive bleeding…

Q: In the following pedigree of an X-linked recessive trait, which of the numbered individuals MUST be…

A: The pedigree indicates if the DNA is passed down unchanged from generation to generation. It can…

Q: Red-green colorblindness is an X-linked trait. From which parent can a SON inherit the red-green…

Q: A woman who is phenotypically normal is married to a phenotypically normal man. Her maternal…

A: Introduction X-linked Inheritance Means That The Gene Causing The Trait Or The Disorder Is Located…

Q: A woman and her spouse both show the normal phenotype for pigmentation, but both had one parent who…

A: Alleles at the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of a homologous…

Q: Is it possible to determine the genotype of an individual expressing a recessive phenotype? Provide…

A: WHAT IS GENOTYPE Genotype simply means collection of genes in an individual. it is representation of…

Q: Male-pattern baldness is an X-linked recessive trait (Xb). A father with a genotype XBY and a mother…

A: The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary material of an organism. The DNA is a part of the…

Q: The pedigree below shows the inheritance of a human genetic disorder. Assuming full penetrance of…

A: The inheritance for the above pedigree could be X-Linked Recessive because the possibilities for…

Q: What will be the sex of an individual who is easily affected by an X-linked recessive trait? Why?

A: Sex chromosomes carry the genes to determine the gender of an organism.

Q: A. In man, hemophilia, the "bleeder's disease" in which the time required for blood to clot is…

A: Hemophilia is a genetic disorder inherited through the sex-linked recessive X chromosome. It is the…

Q: Color blindness

A: There will be four outcome when Carrier female marries with normal male That is X°X which is…

Q: If a man has an X-linked recessive disease, can his sons inherit that disease from him? Why or why…

A: The X-linked recessive disease is caused by a mutation in X chromosomes. X and Y are two sex…

Q: In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X…

A: Hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease. This means that in order to produce a diseased…

Q: If a man who has blood type AB marries a woman who is heterozygous for blood type A, which genotype…

A: Blood group inheritance is a kind of inheritance of multiple alleles which involves three alleles…

Q: Male pattern baldness is a recessive sex-linked trait on the X chromosome (Xb). A woman, who is…

Q: Suppose a man with color blindness, an X-linked recessive trait, has children with a woman who is a…

A: The alleles are generally of dominant and recessive type and some other forms like codominant and…

Q: A karyotype shows that a child has Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY). If the child is also colorblind…

A: Karyotyping is the process of taking photographs of chromosomal pairs to determine the number of…

Q: A test cross is done by crossing a parent with a dominant phenotype but unknown genotype is crossed…

A: A test cross was first introduced by the scientist Gregor Mendel. This cross determines the…

Q: Colorblindness is a recessive x-linked trait. Which genotype represents a male with normal vision?…

A: Color blindness occurs when you are unable to see colors in a normal way. It is also known as colour…

Q: How is this trait inherited?

A: Epistatic : It is a circumstance where the expression of one gene is affected by the expression of…

Q: Red–green color blindness is a human X-linked recessive disorder. Jill has normal color vision, but…

A: X-linked disorder is one in which the gene responsible for disorder is present on X-chromosome. A…

Q: In a disputed parentage case, a man is suspected to be the father of an illegitimate child. He is…

A: Blood groups are based on three different allele. IA , IB or i where i is recessive over both the…

Q: What is the most likely mode of inheritance for the attached pedigree? Female Affected Male Select…

A: Answer : the most likely mode of inheritance for the attached pedigree is : c) x linked.

Q: Red-green colorblindness is a X-linked recessive disorder. Jill has normal vision but her dad was…

A: Red-green colour-blindness is X-linked recessive genetic disorder. The colour-blind gene is denoted…

Q: Red–green color blindness is an X-linked recessive disorder in humans. Your friend is the daughter…

A: Introduction Probability is a statistical tool in genetics that lets us anticipate the likelihood of…

Q: A woman is color blind (an X-linked, recessive trait). What are the chances that her sons will be…

A: Given that color blindness is a X linked recessive trait. X-linked alleles require a specific…

Q: Colour-blindness is the result of an X-linked recessive allele, Xc. The allele for normal eyesight…

A: The pedigree analysis allows us to determine the pattern of inheritance of a particular trait in the…

Q: Imagine a human trait that is inherited via genetic maternal effect and found on the X chromosome…

A: Introduction: We know that maternal effect or cytoplasmic inheritance is not determined in an…

Q: Assume that a disease called Disease B is known to be x-linked but we don’t know if it’s a dominant…

A: A disease called Disease B is known to be x-linked. But if it is dominant or recessive can be…

Q: The human female has two X chromosomes. In which of the following ways will x-linked traits be…

A: X and Y chromosomes are sex chromosomes. The female has two X chromosomes and the male has XY…

Q: Number of FEMALE offspring that would have the condition of an X-linked trait, if an affected man…

A: The mode of inheritance is a pattern of obtaining parentral alleles or genes to the offsprings. The…

Q: Consider the genetic cross for absent-mindedness, which is a dominant trait. All of the offspring…

A: In the given question, it is given that the trait for the absent-mindedness is dominant and is…

Q: The shape of a heliodor is an X-linked trait. Male heliodors inherit two X chromosomes, while the…

A: X-linked traits have a different way of inheritance than autosomal traits. In Heliodors, the XX…

Q: An unaffected woman, who is heterozygous for an X-linked allele causing Duchenne muscular dystrophy,…

A: The alleles are the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of the homologous…

Q: The allele for colorblindness is carried on the X chromosome and is recessive. A man, whose…

A: Colour blindness is a sex linked recessive disorder.

Q: Colour blindness is caused by a sex-linked, recessive gene. If a woman, whose father was colour…

Q: Because the gene for color blindness is located on the X-chromosome, it is normally impossible for a…

A: Color Blindness is an X-linked recessive disorder. Lets us see which of these options are correct…

Q: If the mother has normal color vision but her daughter has red-green colorblindness, what must be…

A: The red green color blindness is a X linked recessive trait. Let XC encodes normal phenotype. And…

Q: Which genotype below is considered a carrier for an x-linked recessive disorder? a C XBXB xBxb xbxb

A: X-linked recessive disorder - Genetic disorders connected to mutations in genes on the X chromosome…

Q: Colour blindness is a recessive sex-linked trait found on the X chromosome. Suppose a colour blind…

A: Humans carry 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes present in…

Question

PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION

A carrier is someone who carries a recessive allele in their genotype but does not display the
phenotype. Red-green color blindness is caused by a recessive allele carried on the X-
chromosome. Can a male be a carrier of red-green color blindness? Explain your answer.

Expert Solution

This question has been solved!

Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.

This is a popular solution!

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Step 1

VIEW

Step 2

VIEW

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

Step by step

Solved in 2 steps

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Knowledge Booster

Learn more about

Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, biology and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.

Similar questions

Could a woman with the X-linked color-blind trait have a son without colorblindness? Use a Punnett square to explain your answer.
In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X chromosome. A man with hemophilia marries a woman with hemophilia. What is the probability of a son they have been a hemophiliac?
In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X chromosome. A man with hemophilia marries a woman with hemophilia. What is the probability of a daughter they have been a hemophiliac?
Color-blindness is an X-linked, recessive trait. If a normal-sighted woman, whose father was color-blind, marries a color-blind man, what is the probability that they will have a son who is color-blind? (use the letter “B”)
Colour blindness is caused by a sex-linked, recessive gene. If a woman, whose father was colour blind, marries a man with normal colour vision, what percentage of their children will be colour blind? Show using a Punnet square cross
Given that the gene for the color-blind condition is recessive and X-linked. You have a female with Turner Syndrome, with their paternal parent that is color-blind. Which of these statements BEST explains this scenario.
Red–green color blindness is a human X-linked recessive disorder. Jill has normal color vision, but her father is color blind. Jill marries Tom, who also has normal color vision. Jill and Tom have a daughter who has Turner syndrome and is color blind. a. How did the daughter inherit color blindness? b. Did the daughter inherit her X chromosome from Jill or from Tom?
Imagine a human trait that is inherited via genetic maternal effect and found on the X chromosome (x-linked recessive). If both Jill and her paternal grandmother display the phenotype, Jill’s father does not, and Jill’s sons have the phenotype, what is the most likely genotype of: (Use the symbol Xa to indicate the allele leading to this trait) a. Jill's dad
Color-blindness is an X-linked recessive disorder. Under what circumstances will this condition manifest in a child? Top of Form If the child is a male and its mother has the recessive allele If the child is a female and its father has the recessive allele If the child is a female and its mother has the recessive allele If the child is a male and its father has the recessive allele
If a man has an X-linked recessive disease, can his sons inherit that disease from him? Why or why not?
Why are males more prone to having x-linked recessive disorders?a. Because the y chromosome is smaller than the x chromosome. b. Because the y chromosome is weaker than the X chromosome c. Because there is a chromosome that will inhibit the eexpression of the defective gene. d. Because there is no other chromosome that will mask the other defective chromosome
a) A woman who is type A has a daughter who is type O. Give the genotypes of both the mother and of the daughter. b) The mother claims a man who is type B is the father. Is that possible? Explain. c) The accused man can prove that both of his parents are type AB. Is it possible for him to be type B? If so, what is his genotype? d) Does the answer in part c change the answer in part b?