A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive. a) How many of their daughters might be expected to be color-blind dwarfs?  b)What proportion of their sons would be color-blind and of normal height? c)They have a daughter who is a dwarf with normal color vision. What is the probability that she is heterozygous for both genes?

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A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.

a) How many of their daughters might be expected to be color-blind dwarfs? 

b)What proportion of their sons would be color-blind and of normal height?

c)They have a daughter who is a dwarf with normal color vision. What is the probability that she is heterozygous for both genes?

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